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Initial Predictors of Life Satisfaction in Early Adulthood

Subjective Well-being Among Young People in Transition to Adulthood

Interrelationships among Locus of Control and Years in Management and Unemployment: Differences by Gender

This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes for men and women at two opposite poles of the labour market: high level managerial / leadership positions and unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the processes by which highly positive and ...

A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory: Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes

This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the processes by which highly positive and negative ...

Why Men Might 'Have It All' While Women Still Have to Choose between Career and Family in Germany

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 non-leadership, non-high-level managerial positions, unemployment, and non-labour market participation. Our results indicated that a clear hierarchy ...

Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being In and Out of Management Positions

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 ...

A Comparison of Poverty Rate Estimates Using Expenditure and Income Data

Märchen oder Mallorca?

Entscheidungen folgen ihrer ganz eigenen Dramaturgie. Manchmal spielen aktuelle Tatsachen eine Rolle, manchmal ist Nützlichkeit ihr Maßstab – aber manchmal liegen ihre Wurzeln auch tief in der Evolutionsgeschichte des Menschen. Ralph Hertwig, Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung in Berlin, untersucht die Dynamik von Auswahl, Unsicherheit und Risiko. Und empfiehlt Großeltern, sich um ...

Tackling and Understanding the Small Sample Bias in ARFIMA Models

Marriage and happiness: A survey (Übersetzung aus dem Japanischen)

This paper explores studies concerning the effect of marriage on happiness and reports the followings. Those who marry are happier than those who don ft. There exists bilateral causality between marriage and happiness. Happiness rises with marriage, but thereafter begins to decline shortly. Whether the adaptation is perfect or not is still undetermined. Why people get married? What kind of couple get ...