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  • Life Satisfaction, Household Income and Personality Traits

    We show that personality traits mediate the effect of income on Life Satisfaction. The effect is strong in the case of Neuroticism, which measures the sensitivity to threat and punishment, in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism increases the usually observed concavity of the relationship: Individuals with higher Neuroticism score enjoy income more ...

    Berlin: DIW Berlin, 2012,
    (SOEPpapers 453)     | Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini

  • Life Satisfaction, Income and Personality

    We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and punishment, is strong in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism increases the usually observed concavity of the ...

    In: Journal of Economic Psychology 48 (2015), June 2015, 17-32 | Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini

  • Subjective Income and Employment Expectations and Preferences for Redistribution

    In: Economics Letters 99 (2008), 3, 449-453 | Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler

  • Does Democracy Foster Trust?

    In: Journal of Comparative Economics 37 (2009), 2, 251–269 | Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler

  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes

    This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care responsibilities and family structure interact in affecting children's mobility characteristics. Our main result is that the mobility of young adults crucially depends on the presence of a sibling. Siblings compete in location and employment decisions to direct parental care decisions towards their preferred outcome. Only children are ...

    In: Economica 76 (2009), 303, 528-556 | Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler

  • The role of social networks in determining migration and labour market outcomes: Evidence from German reunification

    This paper empirically examines social network explanations for migration decisions in the context of German reunification. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we first show that the presence of a family in West Germany is an important predictor for the migration hazard rate of East Germans. We then explore whether pre-migration networks have a discernible impact on the economic ...

    In: Economics of Transition 17 (2009), 4, 739–767 | Helmut Rainer, Tom Siedler

  • Poverty in American Eyes

    Luxemburg: Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), 1992,
    (Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 80)     | Lee Rainwater

  • The Social Wage in the Income Package of Working Parents

    Luxemburg: Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), 1993,
    (Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 89)     | Lee Rainwater

  • Demography and Income Packing: What Explains the Income Distribution?

    In: Heinz P. Galler, Gert G. Wagner , Empirische Forschung und wirtschaftspolitische Beratung
    Frankfurt/New York: Campus
    99-118     | Lee Rainwater, Timothy M. Smeeding

  • Doing poorly: The real income of american children in a comparative perspective

    In: Jerome H. Skolnick, Elliot Currie , Crisis in American Institutions (11th Edition)
    Boston: Allyn and Bacon
    118-125     | Lee Rainwater, Timothy M. Smeeding
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