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SOEPpapers 145 / 2008
I define wellbeing as preference realization. Wellbeing can be measured with affective (the amount of pleasant versus unpleasant experiences) and cognitive (satisfaction with life in general and life domains) measures. Since its inception 25 years ago, the SOEP has included cognitive measures of wellbeing. In 2007, the SOEP included four items (happy, sad, angry, afraid) as an affective measure of ...
2008| Ulrich Schimmack
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Sonstige Publikationen des DIW / Aufsätze 2008
2008| Bruce Headey
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SOEPpapers 153 / 2008
The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the wellbeing of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of labour-market security. Those with good job ...
2008| Andrew Clark, Andreas Knabe, Steffen Rätzel
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SOEPpapers 45 / 2007
Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on subjective well-being it is possible to assess these latter gains from matching. We introduce a two-equation ordered probit model with endogenous ...
2007| Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer, Rainer Winkelmann
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In Germany, processes can be observed that have long been out of keeping with the principle of equality of opportunity. Unemployment is concentrated in the structurally weak peripheral areas, in Eastern Germany in particular; emigration of young and better-educated people to the West is not diminishing, but contrary to expectation is again on the increase; aging processes have set in already, and when ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
83 (2007), 2, S. 283-307
| Annette Spellerberg, Denis Huschka, Roland Habich
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SOEPpapers 55 / 2007
Set-point theory has dominated the field of subjective well-being (SWB). It has served as a classic Kuhn research paradigm, being extended and refined for thirty years totake in new results. The central plank of the theory is that adult set-points do not change, except just temporarily in the face of major life events. There was always some "discordant data", including evidence that some events are ...
2007| Bruce Headey
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Refereed essays Web of Science
How long do people want to live, and how does scientific research on aging affect such desires? A dual-source information model proposes that aging expectations and desires are informed differently by two sources: personal experiences on the one hand, and scientific and societal influences on the other. Two studies with independent German national samples explored desires regarding length of life and ...
In:
The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
62 (2007), 5, S. 268-276
| Frieder R. Lang, Paul B. Baltes, Gert G. Wagner
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper examines social agglomeration externalities. Using survey data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, it examines the link between city size and different measures of consumption, social interaction and social capital. There is strong evidence of agglomeration effects in consumption, while positive effects of city size on social interaction and social capital variables seem to some extent ...
In:
Urban Studies
44 (2007), 11, S. 2105-2121
| Rainald Borck
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Other refereed essays
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch
127 (2007), 1, S. 95-104
| Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
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Diskussionspapiere 753 / 2007
Set-point theory has dominated the field of subjective well-being (SWB). It has served as a classic Kuhn research paradigm, being extended and refined for thirty years to take in new results. The central plank of the theory is that adult set-points do not change, except just temporarily in the face of major life events. There was always some 'discordant data', including evidence that some events are ...
2007| Bruce Headey