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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. ...

Explaining Differences Between the Expected and Actual Duration Until Return Migration: Economic Changes

This paper explores the difference between intentions and realizations in return migration with the help of a duration model. Using the GSOEP the results lend support to the fact that people use simplifying heuristics when trying to forecast the future; their return intentions indicate bunching in heaps of 5 years. Along these lines we find that migrated individuals systematically underestimate the ...

Family Structure and Early Home Leaving: A Mediation Analysis

An ample body of research has shown that young adults from non-intact families are more likely to leave the parental home at an early age than young adults from intact families. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying this relationship. We drew on prospective longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) to examine why young adults from non-intact families are ...

Leaving and Returning Home: A New Approach to Off-Time Transitions

Objective This study offers a new approach to off-time transitions and applies it to the link between leaving and returning home. Background It is no longer uncommon for young adults to return after having left the parental home. Previous research has mostly examined returning home in isolation from leaving home, although these two transitions are closely intertwined. Method Using longitudinal data ...

The Pleasures and Pains of Self-Employment: A Panel Data Analysis of Satisfaction with Life, Work, and Leisure

We investigate how a transition from paid employment to self-employment in the labor market influences life satisfaction. Furthermore, we consider the dynamics of work and leisure satisfaction because the balance between work and leisure is an important element of life satisfaction. Fixed-effects regressions using German Socio-Economic Panel data (1984- 2012) reveal that switching to self-employment ...

Emotionale Integration von Personen mit Migrationshintergrund. Vielfältigkeit und Ursachen der emotionalen Integration bei Aussiedlern und Personen mit einem Migrationshintergrund aus der Türkei

Die emotionale Integration von Zuwanderern in Deutschland ist bislang kaum untersucht worden. Anhand einer eigenen Befragung von 1.825 Personen mit einem Migrationshintergrund aus der Türkei und Aussiedlern wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob verschiedene Emotionsdimensionen unterscheidbar sind, inwieweit die Zuwanderer emotional Integriert sind und wovon die emotionale Integration abhängt. Anhand der ...