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 …

barely any evidence for Germany. This study adds to this literature by exploring data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … and church attendance. Despite the historic divide in religion, results in West and East Germany do not differ …

information on people’s migration decisions and their life satisfaction for Germany, we provide an empirical investigation of the …

Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of … Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can … distribution in both countries. In Germany this result is mainly driven by a high downward mobility of sons with fathers in the …

How happy are first-generation immigrants in Germany today? How do patterns of formal or informal discrimination affect …

In contrast to the vast body of data on immigration to Germany, there is almost no scientifically valid data available … on emigration flows from Germany and the factors motivating people to emigrate. In particular, there is an almost total … of departure for the pilot project "Life outside Germany" which attempted to follow Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP …

techniques for fuel poverty measurement. Based on household data from Germany, figures that would result from different fuel … fuel poverty measurement and subgroup comparison are discussed. …

relationship between the incidence of low occupational prestige and the probability of internal migration in Germany and thus …