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Are Self-Employed Really Happier than Employees? An Approach Modelling Adaptation and Anticipation Effects to Self-Employment and General Job Changes
Hanglberger, Dominik; Merz, Joachim - 2011
Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies might be biased by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects. For testing we specify several...
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Arbeitszufriedenheit und Persönlichkeit: "Wer schaffen will, muss fröhlich sein!"
Fietze, Simon - 2011
The research on job satisfaction has a long history and is one of the most intensively studied subjects - not only in the field of industrial and organizational psychology. The various studies can roughly be classified into situational, dispositional, and hybrid approaches, depending on whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601030
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Continuous Training, Job Satisfaction and Gender: An Empirical Analysis Using German Panel Data
Burgard, Claudia; Görlitz, Katja - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm characteristics, we find a difference between males and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601036
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The happy artist? An empirical application of the work-preference model
Steiner, Lasse; Schneider, Lucian - 2012
The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286344
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Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health of Workers? New Evidence Using Panel Data and Objective Measures of Health
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2008
This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600722
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Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health of Workers?: New Evidence Using Panel Data and Objective Measures of Health
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017376
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Endogeneity in the relation between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction
Hajek, André - 2013
life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327286
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Childbearing History, Later Life Health, and Mortality in Germany
Hank, Karsten - 2010
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women …'s physical health and survival is negative. Early motherhood is paralleled by poorer physical health in West Germany, whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600947
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Pollution Exposure and Infant Health: Evidence from Germany
Coneus, Katja; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2010
This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600954
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Spillover Effects of Maternal Education on Child's Health and Schooling
Kemptner, Daniel; Marcus, Jan - 2011
This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601017