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<b>Objective</b>: This paper investigates commuting and interregional migration from eastern to western Germany, and asks, first: Who chooses to migrate and who chooses to commute? Second: Does commuting serve as a stepping-stone or as a long-term alternative to migration? And third: What role does education and educational–occupational mismatch play in those choices? <b>Methods</b>: ...
In:
Demographic Research
41 (2019), 16, 461-476
| Silvia Maja Melzer, Thomas Hinz
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The German reunification, which several economists have called a “natural” experiment, provides the unique possibility to inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the impact of adaptation, social comparison and relative deprivation on the change in SWB associated with moving from Eastern to Western Germany after the German reunification ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 448)
| Silvia Maja Melzer, Ruud J. A. Muffels
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We examine how late-life personality development relates to overall morbidity as well as specific performance-based indicators of physical and cognitive functioning in 1,232 older adults in the Berlin Aging Study II (aged 65-88 years). Latent growth models indicated that, on average, neuroticism and conscientiousness decline over time, whereas extraversion and openness increase and agreeableness remains ...
In:
Journal of Research in Personality
65 (2016), December 2016, 94-108
| Swantje Mueller, Jenny Wagner, Johanna Drewelies, Sandra Duezel, Peter Eibich, Jule Specht, Ilja Demuth, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf
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Personality is a powerful predictor of central life outcomes, including subjective well-being. Yet, we still know little about how personality manifests in the very last years of life when well-being typically falls rapidly. Here, we investigate whether the Big Five personality traits buffer (or magnify) terminal decline in well-being beyond and in interaction with functioning in key physical and social ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
116 (2019), 4, 634-650
| Swantje Mueller, Jenny Wagner, Gert G. Wagner, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
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In:
ZUMA-Nachrichten
28 (2004), 55, 53-96
| Ulrich O. Mueller, Cornelia Bormann
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Wiesbaden:
Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB),
2001,
(Materialien zur Bevölkerungswissenschaft Heft 102c)
| Ulrich O. Mueller, Monika Heinzel-Gutenbrunner
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We investigate how often replication studies are published in empirical economics and what types of journal articles are replicated. We find that between 1974 and 2014 0.1% of publications in the top 50 economics journals were replication studies. We consider the results of published formal replication studies (whether they are negating or reinforcing) and their extent: Narrow replication studies are ...
In:
Research Policy
48 (2019), 1, 62-83
| Frank Mueller-Langer, Benedikt Fecher, Dietmar Harhoff, Gert G. Wagner
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In:
Hans-Jürgen Andreß ,
Empirical Poverty Research in a Comparative Perspective
Aldershot et al.: Ashgate
229-256
| Ruud J. A. Muffels, Henk-Jan Dirven
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Colchester:
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research,
1999,
(EPAG Working Paper 1)
| Ruud J. A. Muffels, Didier Fouarge, Ronald Decker
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In:
Richard Berthoud, Maria Iacovou ,
Social Europe - Living Standards and Welfare States
Cheltenham / Northampton: Edward Elgar
171-201
| Ruud J. A. Muffels, Joachim R. Frick, Wilfred Uunk