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Despite lower incomes the self-employed often report higher job satisfaction. But this increased job satisfaction only sometimes translates into higher life satisfaction, likely due to the heterogeneous nature of self-employment. By distinguishingdifferent types of self-employment, this paper...
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entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status … as main factors that shape the relationship between occupational status and life satisfaction. Senior entrepreneurs enjoy … to their self-employed counterparts. Heterogeneity analysis of various types of senior entrepreneurs and senior paid …
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and criticized. German reunification, in which the formerly Socialist East joined the Federal Republic of Germany …
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We investigate the effect of the physical presence of wind turbines on residential well-being in Germany, using panel …
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,678 individuals in Germany, 1994 - 2012, for identifying and valuing the local externalities from solar, wind and biomass plants in …
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forgiving personal bankruptcy law are less relevant for wealthy potential. - entrepreneurs who still risk losing their wealth … model and tests the hypotheses derived by exploiting the introduction of a "fresh start" policy in Germany in 1999 as a …
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behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are permanently facing exchange processes in the interplay with investors, sellers, and … reciprocity influence the exit probability of entrepreneurs; and iii) willingness to trust and to act reciprocally influences the … entrepreneurial development. Interestingly, entrepreneurs are more trustful than employees, but much less trustful than managers. …
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This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...
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opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative … indicate that the returns to a year of education for opportunity entrepreneurs are 3.5 percentage points higher than the paid … employees' rate of 8.1%, but 6.5 percentage points lower for necessity entrepreneurs. -- returns to education ; opportunity …
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