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, job, and pay satisfaction between those who are affected by the reform according to their pre-intervention wages and those … satisfaction by 0.10 standard deviations (0.15 points on a ten-point Likert scale). Positive effects last at least until one year … after the reform. Life satisfaction tends to increase particularly in the region that is overall economically less developed …
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This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …
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with larger day-care growth mothers and fathers expressed greater satisfaction with the available child care. In West … Germany, the daycare expansion was positively associated with an increase in maternal satisfaction with family life, health … associations with some domains were similarly positive but reached statistical significance only for maternal satisfaction with …
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: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction …
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We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of …
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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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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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operationalized by the subjective frequency of the basic emotions of happiness, sadness, fear and anger as well as life satisfaction … sadness experiences, while a change in the opposite direction results in lower frequencies. In addition, life satisfaction was …
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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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Using German panel data and relying on internal relocation, this paper investigates the anticipation and adaptation of subjective well-being (SWB) in the course of migration. We hypothesize that SWB correlates with the process of migration, and that such correlations are at least partly socially...
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