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Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos, Xavier - 2010

relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the … years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect of inequality measured by the sample gini coefficient by year and … suggest that even though inequality and risk aversion are related, they are not the same thing. The paper shows that the …

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Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on

Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2003

We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. The standard glass ceiling hypothesis highlights the belief that the playing field...

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Gender Differences in German Upward Income Mobility

Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

We examine the upward labor income mobility of men and women in Germany using the GSOEP Cross National Equivalent File. Women have greater overall income mobility. However, utilizing a measure of upward income mobility and calculating the posterior probability that men?s upward income mobility...

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Well-being inequality and reference groups: an agenda for new research

van Praag, Bernard - 2010

concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up … consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined …

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A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, Christa Katharina; … - 2000

In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....

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Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?

Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. Following Adam Smith, helping others is the way to higher individual well-being. This view contrasts with the selfish utility maximizer who avoids costs from helping others. The two rival views are studied empirically. We...

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Is Posner right? An empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men

Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes - 2009

Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that women's utility is higher if they are married. Thus, extending the lifespan of men would benefit women. Using life satisfaction data...

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Income and Happiness : New Results from Generalized Threshold and Sequential Models

Winkelmann, Rainer; Boes, Stefan - 2004

Empirical studies on the relationship between income and happiness commonly use standard ordered response models, the … study of whether the income effect depend on a person's happiness. In this paper we pinpoint the shortcomings of standard …

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The happiness gains from sorting and matching in the labor market

Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2006

Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is...

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Does marriage make people happy, or do happy people get married?

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2005

This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely for marriage and that there are large differences in the benefits from marriage between couples. Potential,...

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