Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children’s economic well … experiencing higher income inequality in childhood is associated with lower intergenerational mobility measured in adulthood …

development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage …

Germany has recently made extensive reforms in its tertiary education system. Traditional degrees are being replaced by … traditional degree program has affected first-year students’ satisfaction. Three dimensions of student satisfaction are focused … upon: Student satisfaction with teaching, student satisfaction with the organization of the study programs, as well as an …

Our paper describes the results of a Social Return on Investment analysis of four new housing projects in Germany. A … residents, point not only to improvements in living satisfaction, but indicate also a huge potential for socio-economic cost …

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability …. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell …'s model to establish a link between immigrants' reference income and their return visits to their countries of origin. I …

in the effect of happiness gaps: couples are more likely to break-up when the difference in life satisfaction is …This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts … divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …

these effects in the generational accounting framework. An empirical application for Spain illustrates that our proposed … decomposition of indicators is empirically relevant. Standard generational accounting suggests that fiscal sustainability in Spain …