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Determinants of participation in further training among workers with disabilities

Purpose: To analyse the determinants of the participation in further training for workers without and with disabilities in Germany. In particular, we are interested in testing the hypothesis that people with disabilities are less likely to receive further training. Method: Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel which covers the period 1989 to 2008, we estimate panel data regression ...

How Do Leisure Activities Impact on Life Satisfaction? Evidence for German People with Disabilities

This study analyses the effect of participating in leisure activities on the levels of life satisfaction reported by people with and without disabilities. Particular attention is paid to exploring how different types of leisure activities (e.g. social gatherings, cultural events, active sports, volunteer work, etc.) affect individuals’ life satisfaction and which of them contribute most to improving ...

Impact of Working Time Mismatch on Job Satisfaction: Evidence for German Workers with Disabilities

This study examines the impact of working time mismatch (i.e. the discrepancy between actual and desired working hours) on individuals’ job satisfaction by disability status in Germany. Our particular interest is in testing the assumption that working time mismatch is a more serious problem among workers with disabilities as compared to workers without disabilities, especially concerning the presence ...

Onset of disability and life satisfaction: evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

This paper analyses the effect of the onset of disability on the well-being of individuals. In particular, we are interested in studying whether people can adapt to disability over time after its onset. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the period 1984–2006, we estimate life satisfaction equations using a fixed-effects model for working-age males (aged 21–58). ...

Longitudinal Analysis of the Domains of Satisfaction Before and After Disability: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of the onset of disability on life satisfaction and five different domains of satisfaction (health, household income, housing, job, leisure) for German individuals. Particular attention is paid to examining whether individuals can adapt to disability over time before and after its onset in terms of satisfaction. Using longitudinal data from the German ...

Disability, Training and Job Satisfaction

This study analyses the effects of participating in further training on the levels of job satisfaction reported by workers without and with disabilities in Germany. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel which covers the period 1989–2008, we estimate a “Probit Adapted OLS (POLS)” model which allows us to identify the determinants of job satisfaction for people without and with ...

The Impact of Educational Attainment on Labor Market Outcomes

Evaluating Patterns of Income Growth when Status Matters: A Robust Approach

This paper addresses the problem of ranking growth episodes from a microeconomic perspective. While most of the existing criteria, framed in the pro-poor growth tradition, are either based on anonymous individuals or are used to identify them on the basis of their status in the initial period, this paper proposes new criteria to evaluate growth, which are robust to the choice of the reference period ...

Co-Pay and Feel Okay: Self-Rated Health Status After a Health Insurance Reform

The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system of Germany in 2004 as a source of exogenous variation. Among others, the reform introduced a co-payment for ambulatory doctor visits and increased the co-payments for prescription drugs. This natural experiment allows identification of the causal impact of the program on self-assessed ...

Financing On-The-Job Training - Shared Investment or Promotion Based System? Evidence from Germany