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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601018
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Working Hour Arrangements and Working Hours - A Microeconometric Analysis Based on German Time Use Diary Data
Merz, Joachim; Burgert, Derik - 2003
The labour market providing individual resources and economic well-being is an actual topic in the economic and social policy discussion. In the course of time the traditional full-time work is diminishing, new labour arrangements are discussed (keyword: flexible labour markets). This study will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261630
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278663
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Extended income inequality and poverty dynamics of labour market and household activities: A ten years microanalysis with the German socio-economic panel
Merz, Joachim; Kirsten, Dagmar - 1998
Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290101
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Two scales, one methodology: Expenditure based equivalence scales for the United States and Germany
Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 1994
Choosing an appropriate equivalence scale is a prerequisite for comparisons of economic well-being income distribution, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use a country specific equivalence scale (social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290104
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Equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption expenditure microdata: The case of West Germany
Merz, Joachim; Faik, Jürgen - 1992
-Mikrodaten offenbarter Präferenzen für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1983 vor. Es ist ein Teil eines amerikanisch … Deutschland auf der Basis von aktuell verfügbaren individuellen Konsumausgaben zeigt eine Vielfalt interessanter Resultate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290122
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Relative inequality and poverty in Germany and the United States using alternative equivalence scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994
Mikrodaten von Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten der Luxemburg Income Study (LIS) werden verwendet, um die … Merz et al. (1993) für Deutschland und die Vereinigten Staaten entwickelt wurden. Frühere Studien bestätigend zeigen wir …, daß Ungleichheit und Armut in den Vereinigten Staaten gößer sind als in Deutschland. Alle Personengruppen zusammen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290126
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Human capital investments in children: A comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - 2010
von Eltern-Kind Zeiten in unterschiedlichen Ländern mit differenten Wohlfahrtsregimes variiert: Finnland, Deutschland und …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290473
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Timing, fragmentation of work and income inequality: An earnings treatment effects approach
Merz, Joachim; Böhm, Paul; Burgert, Derik - 2005
musterspezifischer Erklärung der Einkommen.Herausragendes Ergebnis: Die individuellen Einkommen in Deutschland sind abhängig und …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290511
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290515