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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty : Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP – German Evidence

Merz, Joachim - 2011

income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a … social participation aspects we define the time dimension as genuine personal leisure time. Based on a CES well … of the time dimension with its social participation aspect incorporated within an interdependent multidimensional time …

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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There is More of it Around? A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland

Oesch, Daniel - 2011

This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may...

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Income Comparisons, Income Adaptation, and Life Satisfaction : How Robust are Estimates from Survey Data?

Pfaff, Tobias - 2013

Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests of the effects often rely on self-constructed measures from survey data. This paper shows that results can be highly sensitive to simple parameter changes. Using large-scale...

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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being

Goerke, Laszlo - 2013

Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...

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Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being

Akay, Alpaslan - 2013

This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax...

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Why is the World Getting Older? The Influence of Happiness on Mortality

Guven, Cahit - 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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Measuring Wellbeing in the SOEP

Schimmack, Ulrich - 2008

I define wellbeing as preference realization. Wellbeing can be measured with affective (the amount of pleasant versus unpleasant experiences) and cognitive (satisfaction with life in general and life domains) measures. Since its inception 25 years ago, the SOEP has included cognitive measures of...

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Adaptation to Income over Time : A Weak Point of Subjective Well-Being

Wunder, Christoph - 2008

This article holds the view that intertemporal comparisons of subjective well-being measures are only meaningful when the underlying standards of judgment are unaltered. This is a weak point of such measures. The study investigates the change in the satisfaction judgments resulting from...

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

Welsch, Heinz - 2017

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people's SWB is negatively correlated with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling...

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Are Retirees More Satisfied? – Anticipation and Adaptation Effects of Retirement on Subjective Well-Being : A Panel Analysis for Germany

Merz, Joachim - 2018

Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society concerning the “demographic change” with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction discussion and quantifies life satisfaction and pattern...

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