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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,...

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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...

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On the Misery of Losing Self-Employment

Hetschko, Clemens - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

self-employment and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …

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Life Satisfaction and Unemployment: The Role of Voluntariness and Job Prospects

Hajek, André - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

By using longitudinal data the relation between satisfaction with life and unemployment is analyzed in this study. Data … the effects of voluntary and involuntary unemployment on life satisfaction. (2) Moreover, the intent is to answer the …

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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...

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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. …

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The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation

Scheve, Christian von; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic … dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted … increasing attention. Although many studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for subjective well …

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