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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There Is More of It Around?: A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland

This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the community lose their job and remain unemployed ...

Upgrading or Polarization? Occupational Change in Britain, Germany, Spain and Switzerland

We analyze occupational change over the last two decades in Britain, Germany, Spain and Switzerland: which jobs have been expanding – high-paid jobs, low-paid jobs or both? Based on individual-level data, four hypotheses are examined: skillbiased technical change, routinization, skill supply evolution and wage-setting institutions. Our analysis reveals massive occupational upgrading which closely matches ...

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The type to train? Impacts of personality characteristics on further training participation

Personality traits drive behaviors and attitudes, and determine socio-economic life outcomes for individuals. This paper investigates the relationship of six personality traits, the Big Five and Locus of Control, to individual participation in employment-related further education and training (FET) in a longitudinal perspective. Initial research suggests that training is a crucial determinant of life ...

Die Entwicklung der Einkommen und Vermögen in den neuen Bundesländern seit 1990. Von der Transformations- zur Verteilungskrise?

The Optimum Level of Well-Being: Can People Be Too Happy?

Psychologists, self-help gurus, and parents all work to make their clients, friends, and children happier. Recent research indicates that happiness is functional and generally leads to success. However, most people are already above neutral in happiness, which raises the question of whether higher levels of happiness facilitate more effective functioning than do lower levels. Our analyses of large ...

Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

Very few genetic variants have been associated with depression and neuroticism, likely because of limitations on sample size in previous studies. Subjective well-being, a phenotype that is genetically correlated with both of these traits, has not yet been studied with genome-wide data. We conducted genome-wide association studies of three phenotypes: subjective well-being (n = 298,420), depressive ...

Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

Educational attainment is strongly influenced by social and other environmental factors, but genetic factors are estimated to account for at least 20% of the variation across individuals1. Here we report the results of a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for educational attainment that extends our earlier discovery sample1, 2 of 101,069 individuals to 293,723 individuals, and a replication study ...

Rückwanderung, Selbstselektion und Lohnverteilungen: Empirische Evidenz für Einwanderer in Deutschland (Diplom)

This thesis examines self-selection mechanisms regarding the return migration decision of immigrants as well as the influence of both these mechanisms and cohort effects on cross-sectional wage assimilation measures using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) from 1984 to 2007. In contrast to former empirical studies assimilation patterns are not solely investigated in a cross-sectional ...