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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseen Technological Mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Wößmann, Ludger - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601034
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Predicting the Trend of Well-Being in Germany: How Much Do Comparisons, Adaptation and Sociability Matter?
Bartolini, Stefano; Bilancini, Ennio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2011
large loss of satisfaction experienced by individuals in old age. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601056
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Does a Better Job Match Make Women Happier? Work Orientations, Work-Care Choices and Subjective Well-Being in Germany
Muffels, Ruud; Kemperman, Bauke - 2011
The study examines the effects of work orientations and work-leisure choices alongside the effect of genes or personality traits on subjective well-being (SWB). The former effects are assumed to be mediated by the match between women's preferred and actual number of working hours indicating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601003
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Capabilities and Choices: Do They Make Sen'se for Understanding Objective and Subjective Well-Being? An Empirical Test of Sen's Capability Framework on German and British Panel Dat...
Muffels, Ruud; Headey, Bruce - 2011
In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life … satisfaction for subjective well-being (SWB) and relative income and employment security for objective well-being (OWB). We ran …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601027
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Migrant's pursuit of happiness. The impact of adaption, social comparison and relative deprivation: Evidence from a "natural" experiment
Melzer, Silvia Maja; Muffels, Ruud J. - 2012
The German reunification, which several economists have called a natural experiment, provides the unique possibility to inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the impact of adaptation, social comparison and relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286907
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The wider benefits of adult learning: Work-related training and social capital
Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa - 2018
We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960825
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseen Technological Mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Wößmann, Ludger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216271
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What (If Anything) Do Satisfaction Scores Tell Us about the Intertemporal Change in Living Conditions
Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes - 2010
This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600948
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The Selection of Pay Referents: Potential Patterns and Impacts on Life Satisfaction
Schneider, Simone - 2010
groupsare most detrimental to life satisfaction? The analysis is based on data from the 2008 and 2009 pretest modules of the …. The consequences of such comparisons for life satisfaction prove to be negative: the more importance an individual … attaches to income comparisons with reference groups, the lower his or her life satisfaction. Income relative to neighbors and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600975
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Sind Politiker risikofreudiger als das Volk? Eine empirische Studie zu Mitgliedern des Deutschen Bundestags
Heß, Moritz; von Scheve, Christian; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2013
Das Papier geht der Frage nach, ob sich Berufspolitikerinnen und Berufspolitiker in ihren Risikoeinstellungen systematisch von der allgemeinen Bevölkerung unterscheiden. In einer schriftlichen Befragung von Mitgliedern des 17. Deutschen Bundestags wurde Ende 2011 die Risikoeinstellungen...
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