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You don't know what you've got till it's gone! : unemployment and intertemporal changes in self-reported life satisfaction

Klemm, Marcus - 2011

1987 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the importance of different comparison standards for the empirical …

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Choices which change life satisfaction : revising SWB theory to account for change

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010

Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of … ; individual choice ; panel regression analysis ; SOEP …

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Gender differences in life satisfaction and social participation

Humpert, Stephan - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 3, pp. 123-142

The paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, marginal effects of binary probit estimations on life satisfaction are presented. Strong gender differences are observable. While sport, welfare or...

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Alternative Values-Based 'Recipes' for Life Satisfaction : German Results with an Australian Replication

Headey, Bruce - 2018

everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited … replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate models of alternative 'recipes' for LS. There appear to be at least four …

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Employee's subjective-well-being and job discretion : designing gendered happy jobs

Bastida, Maria; Neira, Isabel; Lacalle-Calderon, Maricruz - In: European research on management and business economics 28 (2022) 2, pp. 1-8

This paper analyses the influence of job discretion on employees' subjective well-being (SWB) from a gender-based approach. Specifically, it explores whether the level of discretion given to employees in performing their jobs influences their SWB and whether this impact differs between women and...

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Self-reported satisfaction and the economic crisis of 2007 - 10 : or how people in the UK and Germany perceive a severe cyclical downturn

Mertens, Antje; Beblo, Miriam - 2013

, inflation rates and GDP growth. We compare the UK and Germany, two countries with different employment protection regulations …-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) for the period 1996 to 2010 and supplement this with annual … somewhat surprised to find significant differences between the formerly separated parts of Germany even twenty years after re …

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Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?

Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021

life than non-volunteers. Causality is addressed taking advantage of a natural experiment: the collapse of East Germany and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319504

Choices which change life satisfaction : revising SWB theory to account for change

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010

Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of … ; individual choice ; panel regression analysis ; SOEP …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966917

Unemployment as a social norm in Germany

Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2008

negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an …

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Pro-environmental norms and subjective well-being : panel evidence from the UK

Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin; Welsch, Heinz - 2019

Tying in with a small number of studies on green norms, identity and subjective well-being, this paper studies the relationship between holding a green self-image and life satisfaction in the UK. Focusing on (sub-national) regions as the unit of reference, we investigate if and how the...

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