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Looking Back in Anger? Retirement and unemployment scarring
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2014
Previous studies find that past unemployment reduces life satisfaction even after reemployment for non-monetary reasons … (unemployment scarring). It is not clear, however, whether this scarring is only caused by employment-related factors, such as …-monetary unemployment scarring for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for …
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Embedding as a pitfall for survey-based welfare indicators: Evidence from an experiment
Hetschko, Clemens; von Reumont, Louisa; Schöb, Ronnie - 2017
How can we assess the welfare of a society, its evolution over time and predict its change due to particular policy interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a variety of quality of life indicators according...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626285
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Embedding as a Pitfall for Survey-Based Welfare Indicators: Evidence from an Experiment
Hetschko, Clemens; von Reumont, Louisa; Schöb, Ronnie - 2017
How can we assess the welfare of a society, its evolution over time and predict its change due to particular policy interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a variety of quality of life indicators according...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657140
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Ungleichheit und Zufriedenheit – Anmerkungen zur Ungleichheitsdebatte
Schöb, Ronnie - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 24 (2017) 04, pp. 32-35
Befragungen zur Lebenszufriedenheit in Deutschland zeigen einen deutlichen Anstieg der Zufriedenheit in den Jahren 2005 bis 2015. In der gegenwärtigen politischen Diskussion wird dagegen häufig ein Bild gezeichnet, wonach sich immer mehr Menschen abgehängt fühlen und zunehmend Sorgen um die...
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Group-Specific Redistribution, Inequality, and Subjective Well-Being in China
Deng, Peihua; Schöb, Ronnie - 2022
Using survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2018, this paper analyzes the relationship between income inequality, group-specific income redistribution, and subjective well-being among China's urban, rural, and migrant populations. Using narrowly defined reference...
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The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Subjective Well-Being of Workers: An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Panel Data
Schmidtke, Julia; Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2021
Using individual monthly panel data from December 2018 to December 2020, we estimate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and two lockdowns on the mental health and subjective well-being of German workers. Employing an event-study design using individual-specific fixed effects, we find that the...
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The effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the mental health and subjective wellbeing of workers: An event study based on high-frequency panel data
Schmidtke, Julia; Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2021
Using individual monthly panel data from December 2018 to December 2020, we estimate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and two lockdowns on the mental health and subjective well-being of German workers. Employing an event-study design using individual-specific fixed effects, we find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662296
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Embedding Effects in the OECD Better Life Index
von Reumont, Louisa; Schöb, Ronnie; Hetschko, Clemens - 2017
The OECD aims to foster ‘better policies for better lives'. To this end, the OECD invites people to evaluate quality-of-life indicators according to their individual preferences, using the web-based Better Life Index. These indicators are embedded in 11 broader well-being dimensions. Our...
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The subjective well-being of workfare participants: Insights from a Day Reconstruction Survey
Schöb, Ronnie; Knabe, Andreas; Weimann, Joachim - 2016
In this paper, we shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well-being of unemployed and employed workers. We use data from a self-conducted survey among participants in workfare schemes in Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527943
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Income Support, (Un-)Employment and Well-Being
Wolf, Tobias; Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie - 2016
analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527987