We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day, and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are...

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...

Der demografische Wandel wird die umlagefinanzierte gesetzliche Rentenversicherung in den kommenden Jahrzehnten stark belasten. Bisherige Rentenreformen zielten daher darauf ab, durch steuerliche Förderung die zusätzliche kapitalgedeckte Altersvorsorge zu stärken. Diese Möglichkeit wird aber...