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In:
Review of Income and Wealth
45 (1999), 3, 303-324
| Richard Hauser, Holger Fabig
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This article analyses the income distribution of East Germany at the time of reunification with West Germany, the pertod 1990 to 1993. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we compare the situ ation in East Germany on the eve of the union to that in West Germany. We then analyse the change of relative income positions of certain social groups — such as lone-parent households ...
In:
Journal of European Social Policy
4 (1994), 4, 277-295
| Richard Hauser, Joachim R. Frick, Klaus Müller, Gert G. Wagner
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Berlin:
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW),
1991,
(Diskussionspapier Nr. 34)
| Richard Hauser, Klaus Müller, Gert G. Wagner, Joachim R. Frick
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In:
Duncan Gallie, Serge Paugam ,
Welfare Regimes and the Experience of Unemployment in Europe
Oxford: Oxford University Press
2000
25-46
| Richard Hauser, Brian Nolan, Konstanze Mörsdorf, Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn
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In:
Social Indicators Research
85 (2008), 4, 389-403
| Bruce Headey
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For some years now the German Government has been imposing increasingly strict job search requirements on unemployed people. One aim of current policy is to ensure that, if citizens accept unemployment benefits, they must actively search for work. Clearly, case managers try to match jobs to the qualifications of their clients, but it is generally required that individuals must take any job they are ...
In:
Weekly Report
5 (2009), 11, 75-80
| Bruce Headey
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Influential economists, like Bruno S. Frey and Richard Layard, are advocating that the standard approach in economics of inferring utility from changes in consumption and leisure should be augmented or replaced by use of subjective measures. But psychologists claim that adult life satisfaction (or happiness) is more or less fixed; it has a "set-point" which is largely determined by genetic ...
In:
Weekly Report
5 (2009), 4, 26-30
| Bruce Headey
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Set-point theory is the main research paradigm in the field of subjective well-being (SWB). It has been extended and refined for 30 years to take in new results. The central plank of the theory is that adult set-points do not change, except temporarily in the face of major life events. There was always some 'discordant data', including evidence that some events are so tragic (e.g. the death ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
97 (2010), 1, 7-21
| Bruce Headey
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A crucial debate in policy-making as well as academic circles is whether there is a trade-off between economic efficiency and the size/generosity of the welfare state. One way to contribute to this debate is to compare the performance of ‘best cases’ of different types of state. Arguably, in the decade 1985-94, the US, West Germany and the Netherlands were ‘best cases’ - best economic performers - ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
50 (2000), 2, 115-157
| Bruce Headey, et al.
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In:
Social Indicators Research
36 (1995), 3, 247-273
| Bruce Headey, Rudolph Andorka, Peter Krause