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-economic panel (SOEP), this investigation considers the relationship between temporary employment, age and well-being. In doing so …
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variety of quality of life indicators according to their individual preferences. 11 broad dimensions aggregate these … indicators. Our experiment shows that people do not provide consistent ratings across differently labelled dimensions that embed … the same indicators. They also do not adjust the rating of equally named dimensions changing sets of indicators. These …
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We study the relationship between overconfidence and the political and financial behavior of a nationally representative sample. To do so, we introduce a new method of eliciting overconfidence that is simple to understand, quick to implement, and captures respondents' excess confidence in their...
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well-being using micro-data from the German wealth survey, Panel on Household Finances - PHF, for 2010 and 2014. Using … panel regression models, we find that (i) individuals’ life satisfaction is statistically significant and positively …
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This paper examines the role of life satisfactioninthe labor market behavior of workers receiving welfare benefits while working. Welfare stigma and other hard-to-observe factors may affect outcomes as on-the-job search and the duration until leaving welfare status. We utilize life satisfaction...
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This study is an empirical investigation of the empty nest syndrome, commonly understood as a situation where there are feelings of loss or loneliness for mothers and/or fathers following the departure of the last child from the family home. This investigation makes use of rich, longitudinal,...
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The Panel on Household Finances (PHF) is a new panel survey on household finances and wealth in Germany conducted by … households in Germany. Wealthy households are oversampled using micro-geographic indicators. The survey is designed to be a full … panel. The micro data will be made available for scientific use. The next wave is scheduled for 2014. Aside from being a …
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Losing a partner is a life-changing experience. We draw on numerous datasets to examine differences between widowed and partnered older women and to provide a comprehensive picture of well-being in widowhood. Most importantly, our analysis accounts for time use in widowhood, an aspect which has...
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Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE, 2004-17) and time diaries from Poland (2013), the U.S. (2006-16), the U.K. (2014-15) and France (2009-10), we examine differences between widowed and partnered older women in well-being and its development in...
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