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Increasing evidence from the empirical economic and psychological literature suggests that positive and negative well-being are more than opposite ends of the same phenomenon. Two separate measures of the dependent variable may therefore be needed when analyzing the determinants of subjective well-being. We investigate asymmetries in the effect of income on subjective well-being with a single-item ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
95 (2010), 1, 111-128
| Stefan Boes, Rainer Winkelmann
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Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the one hand, higher progressivity distorts individual labour supply decisions at the hours-of-work margin, on the other hand, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a numerical model for Germany. The model combines ...
Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research,
2010,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-035)
| Stefan Boeters
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Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW),
2008,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-043)
| Stefan Boeters, Michael Feil
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Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW),
2004,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-20)
| Stefan Boeters, Michael Feil, Nicole Gürtzgen
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Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW),
2003,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-70)
| Stefan Boeters, Nicole Gürtzgen, Reinhold Schnabel
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Today’s teenagers spend their free time very differently than they did 15 years ago: engagement with IT and communications technologies is now their most significant leisure activity. Representative statistics based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) longitudinal study indicate that Internet and computer-based recreation plays a major role for more than 95 percent of all 17-year-olds in Germany, ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
6 (2016), 48, 558-567
| Sandra Bohmann, Jürgen Schupp