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Identifying age penalty in women's wages : new method and evidence from Germany 1984-2014
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; Staveren, Irene van - 2017
Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We extend DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort and age effects in adjusted gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from...
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Why is the world getting older? : the influence of happiness on mortality
Guven, Cahit; Saloumidis, Rudolph - 2009
World life expectancy has risen by around 20 years in the last 50 years. This period has also witnessed rising happiness levels around the world suggesting that happiness might be one of the causes behind the decline in mortality. We investigate the relationship between happiness and mortality...
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Unmet aspirations as an explanation for the age U-shape in human wellbeing
Schwandt, Hannes - 2013
A large literature in behavioral and social sciences has found that human wellbeing follows a U-shape over age. Some theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are felt painfully in midlife but beneficially abandoned and experienced with less regret during old...
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Terminal decline in well-being : the role of social orientation
Gerstorf, Denis; Hoppmann, Christiane A.; Löckenhoff, … - 2016
Well-being development at the end of life is often characterized by steep deteriorations, but individual differences in these terminal declines are substantial and not yet well understood. This study moved beyond the typical consideration of health predictors and explored the role of social...
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Do immigrants suffer more from job loss? : unemployment and subjective well-being in Germany
Leopold, Liliya; Leopold, Thomas; Lechner, Clemens M. - 2016
This study asked whether immigrants suffer more from job loss than German natives do. Compositional, psychosocial, and normative differences between these groups suggest that various factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on subjective well-being are either more prevalent, more...
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Do(n't) worry, it's temporary : the effects of fixed-term employment on affective well-being
Schumann, Paul; Kuchinke, Lars - 2019
survey in Germany. Random effects within between model (REWB) analyses were applied to examine differences between fixed …
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Parental child care time, income, and subjective well-being : a multidimensional polarization approach for Germany
Merz, Joachim; Peters, Normen - 2019
Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is time which enables and restricts individual activities and is a further brick to a more comprehensive picture of individual well-being. In our study we focus on a prominent part...
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The role of body weight for health, earnings, and life satisfaction
Hübler, Olaf - 2019
public sector the sign of the coefficient changes. The results for eastern Germany are different with respect to satisfaction …. Overweight women are less satisfied than others while this is not confirmed for underweight men from eastern Germany. When …
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Do parental leaves make the motherhood wage penalty worse? : assessing two decades of German reforms
Mari, Gabriele; Cutuli, Giorgio - 2019
such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of reforms of parental leave schemes in Germany have shaped changes …
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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019
formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife's labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she … would earn more than him. However, the significance of the male breadwinner prescription seems to decline in West Germany …
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