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Stressed by your job : what is the role of personnel policy?
Shvartsman, Elena; Beckmann, Michael - 2015 - This version: November 2015
Work-related stress can lead to substantial health problems and thereby result in immense costs for establishments. Therefore, the question as to what extent establishments contribute to their employees’ stress levels is of great importance for firm performance. We investigate the relationship...
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Income comparisons among neighbours and life satisfaction in East and West Germany
Knies, Gundi - 2010
' income divide the German nation. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany is negative (which is in line … social interactions between neighbours take place. In contrast, the coefficients on neighbourhood income in East Germany are … there is a divide between East and West Germany, but also that neighbours may not be a relevant comparison group in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825922
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A behaviouristic approach for measuring poverty : the decomposition approach ; empirical illustrations for Germany 1995-2009
Faik, Jürgen - 2011
In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is determined. E. g., household size might be a criterion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154497
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Does a better job match makes women happier? : work orientations, work-care choices and subjective well-being in Germany
Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Kemperman, Bauke - 2011
The study examines the effects of work orientations and work-leisure choices alongside the effect of genes or personality traits on subjective well-being (SWB). The former effects are assumed to be mediated by the match between women's preferred and actual number of working hours indicating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008858153
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Choices which change life satisfaction : similar results for Australia, Britain and Germany
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2011
Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008859059
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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants in Germany
Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010
immigrants across Germany. …
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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts : a microsimulation analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824262
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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the "right" indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824264
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Does immigration weaken natives' support for the welfare state? : evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824272
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Inequality aversion and risk attitudes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2010
Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824273