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Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work : The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction

Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Romeu Gordo, Laura - 2010

in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We …

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Subjective and Objective Living Conditions of Unemployed Persons (Subjektive Und Objektive Lebenslagen Von Arbeitslosen)

Faik, Jürgen; Becker, Jens - 2010

The discussion paper picks out the objective and the subjective well-being of the unemployed in Germany compared to the …

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Entrepreneurial Success and Subjective Well-Being : Worries About the Business Explain One's Well-Being Loss from Self-Employment

Binder, Martin - 2018

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 distinguishing different types of self-employment, this paper...

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The Rise of Precarious Employment in Germany

Brady, David - 2018

precarious employment in Germany from 1984 to 2013. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) through the Luxembourg … stability to the German coordinated market economy, Germany increasingly exhibits substantial dualization, liberalization …

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The Working Class Left Behind? The Class Gap in Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland Over the Last Decades

Lipps, Oliver - 2018

The 1990s and 2000s were a gloomy period for Germany's working class, hit by mass unemployment, welfare retrenchment … and wage stagnation. We examine whether the growing economic disparity between the top and the bottom of Germany's class … life satisfaction and whether, over the last decades, this class gradient increased in Germany, relative to the comparison …

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Biased by Success and Failure : How Unemployment Shapes Stated Locus of Control

Preuss, Malte - 2018

Due to its extraordinary explanatory power for individual behavior, the interest in the concept of locus of control (LOC) has increased substantially within applied economic research. But, even though LOC has been found to affect economic behavior in many ways, the reliability of these findings...

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The Effect of Unemployment on Social Participation of Spouses – Evidence from Plant Closures in Germany

Kunze, Lars - 2017

This paper estimates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the level of social participation of their spouse. Using German panel data, it is shown that unemployment has a strong negative effect on public social activities of both directly and indirectly affected spouses. Private social...

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The Performance of Immigrants in the German Labor Market

Beyer, Robert - 2017

immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with …

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Poverty is a Public Bad : Panel Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data

Welsch, Heinz - 2017

. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people's SWB is negatively correlated …

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Monitoring Subjective Well-Being : Some New Empirical Evidence for Germany

Oltmanns, Erich - 2014

mostly named factors influencing subjective well-being. The goal of the empirical study for Germany is twofold: First of all … empirical results presented in this paper are mainly based on yearly longitudinal data of private households in Germany …

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