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The role of interviewer encounters in panel responses on life satisfaction

Chadi, Adrian - 2013

This paper examines a common explanation why participants of panel surveys may report declining life satisfaction over time. In line with the argument of developing trust relationships between interviewers and interviewees, the analysis reveals positive effects in reported life satisfaction when...

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The one constant : a causal effect of collective bargaining on employment growth? ; evidence from German linked-employer-employee data

Brändle, Tobias; Goerke, Laszlo - 2015

variable entity. We use linkedemployer-employee data for Germany and analyse the effect of collective bargaining coverage on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469601

Sickness absence and works councils : evidence from German individual and linked employer-employee data

Arnold, Daniel; Brändle, Tobias; Goerke, Laszlo - 2014 - This version: August 25, 2014

Using both household and linked employer-employee data for Germany, we assess the effects of non-union representation … correlated with the incidence and the annual duration of absence. We observe a more pronounced correlation in western Germany …

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Missing at work : sickness-related absence and subsequent job mobility

Chadi, Adrian; Goerke, Laszlo - 2015

Economists often interpret absenteeism as an indicator of effort. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, this paper offers a comprehensive discussion of this view by analysing various forms of job mobility. The evidence reveals a significantly negative (positive) link...

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Concerns about the Euro and happiness in Germany during times of crisis

Chadi, Adrian - 2015

unhappiness among concerned citizens to the actual votes for Germany's first major anti-euro party in the subsequent federal …

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Dissatisfied with life or with being interviewed? : happiness and motivation to participate in a survey ; conference paper

Chadi, Adrian - 2014

Information on the number of interviewer contacts allows insights into how people's responses to questions on happiness are connected to the difficulty of reaching potential participants. Using the paradata of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this paper continues such research by...

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Positional income concerns : prevalence and relationship with personality and economic preferences

Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario; Pannenberg, Markus - 2014

This paper presents detailed evidence about who compares to whom in terms of relative income. We rely on representative survey data on the importance of income comparisons vis-á-vis seven reference groups, allowing us to exploit within-subject heterogeneity. We explore the prevalence and...

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How job changes affect people's lives : evidence from subjective well-being data

Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2015

For representative German panel data, we document that voluntary job switching is associated with higher levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas forced job changes do not affect life satisfaction clearly. Using plant closures as an exogenous trigger of switching to a new...

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Regional unemployment and norm-induced effects on life satisfaction

Chadi, Adrian - 2013

While rising unemployment generally reduces people's happiness, researchers argue that there is a compensating social-norm effect for the unemployed individual, who might suffer less when it is more common to be unemployed. This empirical study rejects this thesis for German panel data, however,...

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Conspicuous consumption and communism : evidence from East and West Germany

Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario - 2012

use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural … experiment. Relying on household data that are representative for Germany, our empirical results strongly indicate that … conspicuous consumption is relatively more important in East Germany. Importantly, a significant gap in conspicuous consumption …

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