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shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be …
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This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day-of the-week effect. Overall, we find a 'blue' Sunday...
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Arbeitslosigkeit und individueller Lebenszufriedenheit. Dafür werden sowohl longitudinale als auch retrospektive Daten zur subjektiven … Lebenszufriedenheit des Deutschen Sozio-ökonomischen Panels aus den Jahren 1984 bis 1987 ausgewertet. Es wird gezeigt, dass Arbeitslose … nicht nur zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Arbeitslosigkeit eine geringere Lebenszufriedenheit angeben, sondern sich später auch gut an …
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This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends on the extent to which people adapt to living conditions in general. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the estimation of a dynamic panel data model...
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' income divide the German nation. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany is negative (which is in line … social interactions between neighbours take place. In contrast, the coefficients on neighbourhood income in East Germany are … there is a divide between East and West Germany, but also that neighbours may not be a relevant comparison group in …
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This paper uses concurrently and - for the first time - retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to 1987 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the importance of different comparison standards for the empirical correlation of unemployment and subjective life...
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sensitive to simple parameter changes. Using large-scale panel data from Germany and the UK, I report cases where plausible …
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Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross …. Using long-term panel data for Germany and the United Kingdom, we do not find robust evidence for a relationship between GDP … from previous research, we now count three countries for which Easterlin's happiness-income hypothesis cannot be rejected …
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This paper studies the evolution of life satisfaction over the life course in Germany. It clarifies the causal …, where life satisfaction decreases for less educated people. -- aging ; life satisfaction ; well-being ; happiness …
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satisfaction over life time. The upsurge of happiness after mid-life seems to be more robust to model specifications, which might …
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