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SOEPpapers 268 / 2010
This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by measuring the impact of changes in working-hours on life satisfaction in two countries (the UK and Germany ...
2010| Vanessa Gash, Antje Mertens, Laura Romeu Gordo
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SOEPpapers 270 / 2010
This paper provides insight on the relationship between obesity and happiness. Using the latest available cross sectional data from Germany (GSOEP 2006), UK (BHPS 2005), and Australia (HILDA 2007). We examine whether there is evidence on the impact of overweight on subjective well being. The Hausman test is employed in the univariate and multivariate specifications chosen and reveals evidence for the ...
2010| Marina-Selini Katsaiti
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SOEPpapers 271 / 2010
Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect of inequality measured by the sample gini coefficient by year and federal state is larger for those individuals ...
2010| Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Xavier Ramos
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SOEPpapers 304 / 2010
Ziel dieser Analyse ist die Identifikation von Auswirkungen unterschiedlicher flexibler Arbeitszeitformen und Abgeltungsarten von Überstunden auf die subjektive Arbeitszufriedenheit. Dazu wird zunächst die Verbreitung flexibler Arbeitszeitformen in Deutschland im Zeitverlauf beschrieben. Auf Basis von Daten der Jahre 2005 und 2007 des Soziooekonomischen Panels (SOEP) wird ein Fixed-Effects Panelmodell ...
2010| Dominik Hanglberger
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SOEPpapers 275 / 2010
2010| Denis Huschka, Gert G. Wagner
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey, this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life satisfaction, while those who become less religious record long term losses. This result holds net of the effects of personality traits, and also in fixed effects ...
In:
The Journal of Positive Psychology
5 (2010), 1, S. 73-82
| Bruce Headey, Jürgen Schupp, Ingrid Tucci, Gert G. Wagner
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DIW Wochenbericht 8 / 2010
Argentinien machte 2002 weltweit Schlagzeilen aufgrund eines plötzlichen wirtschaftlichen Zusammenbruchs und der daraus folgenden größten Staatsverschuldung in der Geschichte des Landes. In dieser Studie konzentrieren wir uns auf andere Konsequenzen der Krise, die weniger offensichtlich sind, aber womöglich Jahrzehnte lang andauern werden. Untersucht werden die langfristigen Auswirkungen ungünstiger ...
2010| Carlos Bozzoli
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SOEPpapers 317 / 2010
The death of a spouse is an extremely stressful life event that consequently causes a large drop in life satisfaction. Reactivity to the loss, however, varies markedly, a phenomenon that is currently not well understood. Because lack of controllability essentially contributes to the stressful nature of this incident, we analyzed whether individual differences in the belief in external control influence ...
2010| Jule Specht, Boris Egloff, Stefan C. Schmukle
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Life-span psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine whether and how regional variables relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year longitudinal data from deceased participants of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N = 3,427; age at ...
In:
Psychology and Aging
25 (2010), 3, S. 661-676
| Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Jan Goebel, Jürgen Schupp, Ulman Lindenberger, Gert G. Wagner
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Diskussionspapiere 998 / 2010
This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market, compared with employment in nonleadership, non-high-level managerial positions, unemployment, and non-labour market participation. Our results indicated that a clear hierarchy ...
2010| Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst