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So Far So Good : Age, Happiness, and Relative Income
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2012
In a simple 2-period model of relative income under uncertainty, higher comparison income for the younger cohort can signal higher or lower expected lifetime relative income, and hence either increase or decrease well-being. With data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British...
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Well-Being over the Life Span : Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data
Wunder, Christoph - 2009
This paper applies semiparametric regression models using penalized splines to investigate the profile of well-being over the life span. Splines have the advantage that they do not require a priori assumptions about the form of the curve. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159884
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Income Comparison, Income Formation, and Subjective Well-Being : New Evidence on Envy versus Signaling
Welsch, Heinz - 2013
Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307,465 observations for subjective well-being and its covariates from Germany, 1990-2009, to study whether the nature of income comparison has changed in the process of economic development, and...
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You Can’t Be Happier than Your Wife - Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit - 2010
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer … utility are more at risk than others. It may also be the case that assortative mating in terms of happiness baseline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148706
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Perceived Job Insecurity and Well-Being Revisited : Towards Conceptual Clarity
Geishecker, Ingo - 2010
This paper analyzes the impact of job insecurity perceptions on individual well-being. In contrast to previous studies, we explicitly take into account perceptions about both the likelihood and the potential costs of job loss and demonstrate that most contributions to the literature suffer from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196731
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income - Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203865
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Factors Influencing Tenure Choice in European Countries
Bazyl, Monika - 2009
Homeownership rates are very different across European countries. They range from below 50% in Germany to over 80% in Greece, Spain or Ireland. However the differences lie not only in the overall homeownership rates but also in its structure, and this is the focus of this paper. Its aim is to...
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Who Buffers Income Losses after Job Displacement? The Role of Alternative Income Sources, the Family, and the State
Fackler, Daniel - 2016
Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) this paper analyses to what extent alternative income sources, reactions within the household context, and redistribution by the state attenuate earnings losses after job displacement. Applying propensity score matching and fixed...
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Risk-Averse by Nation or by Religion? Some Insights on the Determinants of Individual Risk Attitudes
Bartke, Stephan; Schwarze, Reimund - 2008
Research findings have proven that the willingness to take risks is distributed heterogeneously among individuals. In the general public, there is a widely held notion that individuals of certain nationalities tend to hold certain typical risk preferences. Furthermore, religious beliefs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213814
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Bringing Home the Money : Xenophobia and Remittances - The Case of Germany
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2008
The determinants of migrants' remittances are the subject of this study based on German SOEP data (2001-2006). In contrast to previous studies we analyze the motives for remittances not only for foreigners but also for the broader group of individuals with a personal migration background. Major...
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