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Purchasing-Power-Parity and the Saving Behavior of Temporary Migrants
Akay, Alpaslan - 2018
How does saving behavior of immigrants respond to changes in purchasing power parity between the source and host … migrants and then test its implications by using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel on immigrants from 92 source …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912788
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Life Satisfaction, Pro-Activity, and Employment
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gokhan; Yilmaz, Levent - 2021
negatively associated with the well-being loss upon unemployment. That is, the negative unemployment shock on their well-being is … with proactivity during the unemployment period. The results are robust to various checks including estimators, measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246030
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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
Akay, Alpaslan - 2014
-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061434
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Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes
Akay, Alpaslan - 2018
Terror has become a global issue. Terror acts perpetuated by religious, nationalist or political groups around the globe can propagate distress rapidly through different channels and possibly change political attitudes. This paper suggests the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915718
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Positional Concerns Through the Life Cycle : Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan - 2012
This paper uses both subjective well-being and survey experimental data to analyze how people's positional concerns regarding income and goods vary with age. The subjective well-being approach is mainly based on German panel data for the period 1984-2009 (German Socio-Economic Panel), while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110498