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We examine the effect of commuting distance on workers’ labour supply patterns, distinguishing between weekly labour supply, number of workdays per week and daily labour supply. We account for endogeneity of distance by using employer-induced changes in distance. In Germany, distance has a slight positive effect on daily and weekly labour supply, but no effect on the number of workdays. The effect ...
In:
Journal of Urban Economics
68 (2010), 1, 82-89
| Eva Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Jos N. van Ommeren
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There is little known about the effects of staggered-hours programs that affect workers’ working schedules to mitigate peak congestion. We examine the effect of workers’ morning start times on their wages for Germany. In contrast to previous work based on cross-section data, we demonstrate that wages are not, or may be, a slight inverse U-shaped function of start time suggesting that staggered-hours ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2010,
(SOEPpapers 310)
| Eva Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Jos N. van Ommeren
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We hypothesise, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the worker's commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether the commute has a positive effect on worker's absenteeism. We identify this effect using employer-induced changes in commuting distance. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance induces absenteeism with an elasticity of about 0.07 to 0.09. ...
In:
Regional Science and Urban Economics
41 (2011), 1, 1-8
| Eva Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Jos N. van Ommeren
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I examine the impact of happiness on consumption and savings behavior using data from the DNB Household Survey from the Netherlands and the German Socio-Economic Panel. Instrumenting individual happiness with regional sunshine, the results suggest that happier people save more, spend less, and have a lower marginal propensity to consume. Happier people take more time for making decisions and have more ...
In:
Journal of Economic Psychology
33 (2009), 4, 701–717
| Cahit Guven
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Weather variables, and sunshine in particular, are found to be strongly correlated with financial variables. I consider self-reported happiness as a channel through which sunshine affects financial variables. I examine the influence of happiness on risk-taking behavior by instrumenting individual happiness with regional sunshine, and I nd that happy people appear to be more risk-averse in financial ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2009,
(SOEPpapers 218)
| Cahit Guven
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This paper offers new findings which support the hypothesis that a causal link from happiness to social capital might exist. The paper exploits the very long German socio-economic panel of around 15000 people. Using the prospective study methodology, it finds that happier people contribute more to social capital. Both parametric and nonparametric results suggest that there exists an inverted-U shape ...
In:
KYKLOS
64 (2011), 2, 178–192
| Cahit Guven
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World life expectancy has risen by around 20 years in the last 50 years. This period has also witnessed rising happiness levels around the world suggesting that happiness might be one of the causes behind the decline in mortality. We investigate the relationship between happiness and mortality using the German Socio-Economic Panel. We consider doctor visits, self-reported health, and presence of chronic ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2009,
(SOEPpapers 198)
| Cahit Guven, Rudolph Saloumidis
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We investigate the relationship between life satisfaction and mortality using the German Socio-Economic Panel, which allows us to follow around 15,000 people for more than two decades. Seventeen per cent of the respondents surveyed in 1984 died between 1984 and 2007. After controlling for initial health conditions, we find that people's life satisfaction at the beginning of the survey is deeply ...
In:
German Economic Review
15 (2014), 4, 453-472
| Cahit Guven, Rudy Saloumidis
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Based on three large panel surveys, this paper shows that happiness gaps between spouses are a good predictor of future divorce. The effect of happiness gaps is asymmetric: couples are more likely to break-up when the woman is the less happy partner. De facto, divorces appear to be initiated predominantly by women who are less happy than their husband. This asymmetry suggests that the effect of happiness ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
82 (2012), 1, 110-130
| Cahit Guven, Claudia Senik, Holger Stichnoth
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This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older). We observe a U-shaped relationship between age and levels of life satisfaction for individuals aged between 16 and approximately 65. Thereafter, life satisfaction ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
97 (2010), 3, 397–417
| Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza