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Bildung neu denken! Das Finanzkonzept

Geschlechterdifferenzen im Bildungssystem. Jahresgutachten 2009

The Labor Market, Poverty and Social Policy in the Czech and Slovak Republics, 1990-1992: Data and Analyses

Earnings Disparities and Income Inequality in CEE Countries: An Analysis of Development and Relationships

The potential in survey data for the study of simultaneous changes in earnings disparities, inequality of household income, and the connections between them has thus far been underexploited. This paper presents various data on four Central and East European (CEE countries and, for the sake of comparison, partially on Austria and Germany. It uses data from multiple sources. Microdata come from the Luxembourg ...

Social conditions for human happiness: A review of research

Empirical research on happiness took off in the 1970s and accelerated after the emergence of positive psychology by 2000. Today this has resulted in some 23,000 research findings. In this article, I take stock of the findings on social conditions for happiness and distinguish between conditions at the macro level of society, the meso level of organisations and the micro level of individual conditions. ...

Rentenreform 2001: Mehr Markt, weniger Geschlechtergerechtigkeit

Outcomes of unemployment episodes during early career for mismatched workers in the United Kingdom and Germany and the mediating effects of education and institutions

Our research challenges the traditional view that unemployment is an unequivocal negative event in working life. We argue that depending on workers’ educational attainment and on national-specific institutional settings unemployment might have different implications on young workers who begin their employment careers in low occupational positions. The strongly skill-based and rigid labour market in ...

The Determinants of Family Reunification among German Guest-Workers

Verknüpfung verschiedener Dimensionen der Untersuchung - Exemplarische Auswertungen und Ergebnisse aus dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel

Der Verfasser stellt auf der Basis von Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels die Entwicklung der Arbeitsunfähigkeit in der Bundesrepublik zwischen 1984 und 1997 dar und analysiert Dauer und Struktur der Arbeitsunfähigkeit, wie sie sich in der Anzahl der Fehltage pro Jahr widerspiegeln. Eine hoher Wert für 'allgemeine Lebenszufriedenheit' geht mit einer geringeren Anzahl an Fehltagen einher. ...

Adaptation, anticipation and social interaction in happiness: An integrated error-correction approach

Adaptation, anticipation and social-reference effects on happiness are strongly interrelated phenomena. However, in the existing empirical literature these phenomena are mainly studied in isolation from each other. Therefore, using SOEP panel data for the years 1984–2007, this study offers an integrated investigation of the implications of these three phenomena for the dynamics of individual life satisfaction. ...