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Job Insecurity, Employability, and Health: An Analysis for Germany across Generations
Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099852
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To Own or Not to Own?: Household Portfolios, Demographics and Institutions in a Cross-National Perspective
Sierminska, Eva; Doorley, Karina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions in assets are more responsive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896244
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Endogeneity in the Relation between Poverty, Wealth and Life Satisfaction
Hajek, André - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
, even the probability of returning from unemployment to employment can increase. Gender-specific differences are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010717496
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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Clark, Andrew E. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784010
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"Mass Privatisation and the Post-Communist Mortality Crisis": Is There Really a Relationship?
Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2010
privatization and unemployment in postcommunist countries, showing that there is little support for the proposed mechanism by which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478800
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Group Wage Curves
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2000
prices, are affected by overall MSA unemployment, the distribution of unemployment among different groups, and national … prices and wages. MSA unemployment has strong effects on MSA wages and prices, but the distribution of unemployment among … different groups has weak effects on wages and prices. Using these estimates, simulations show that targeting high-unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102010