that they will make a transition into volunteering after retirement. Following social production function theory, we assume …

into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …

- Germany. We find, for instance, that for West-workers hearing impediments are on average equivalent to an income reduction of …

An adequate theory of happiness or subjective well-being (SWB) needs to link at least three sets of variables: stable … satisfaction. Using these data, the paper suggests a major revision to the set point or dynamic equilibrium theory of SWB in order … and Tellegen, 1996). Previously, theory focused on evidence that individuals have their own equilibrium level or set point …

In Deutschland liegt der durchschnittliche Lohn einer weiblichen Arbeitskraft unter dem einer männlichen Arbeitskraft …

social resources on the individual length of unemployment in Germany are analysed with data from the German Socio … to new additional findings. In West-Germany mobile persons and actors with internal control find a job more easily while … in East-Germany social capital has a positive influence on the probability of reemployment. …