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Labour Supply, Life Satisfaction, and the (Dis)Utility of Work

In economic theory, it is typically assumed that there is a “disutility of labour”. However, empirical research on subjective well-being has consistently shown that unemployed people are less happy than employed people, even after taking income differences into account. In this paper, we attempt to reconcile both findings. We show that happiness and work hours exhibit an inverse U-shaped relation – ...

The Wear and Tear on Health: What Is the Role of Occupation?

Although it seems evident that occupation affects health, effect estimates are scarce. We use a job characteristics matrix linked to German longitudinal data spanning 26 years to characterize occupations by their physical and psychosocial burdens. Employing a dynamic model to control for factors that simultaneously affect health and selection into occupation, we find that manual work and low job control ...

Regional Redistribution: Applying Data from Household Income Data

Public Child Support to Young Adults Living with their Parents - An international Dynamic Comparison

Everyone Happy - Living Standards in Germany 25 Years after Reunification

Already a quarter of a century since the fall of the wall and the gap in living standards between eastern and western Germany is still not fully closed. Admittedly this could not realistically have been expected. Despite the increase in life satisfaction in eastern Germany, the east- west divide prevails. Evidence of this can be found in the latest data from the long-term Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) ...

Social and Economic Characteristics of Financial and Blood Donors in Germany

Surveys of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) have shown that Germans donated around 5.3 billion euros in 2009 — right in the middle of the financial and economic crisis. The type and amount of donations made is well documented in Germany. However, until recently, there was very little information available on the identity of Germans who share their income with people in need. A new survey ...

Impact of Life-Course Events on Car Ownership

Interactions Between Residential Relocations, Life Course Events, and Daily Commute Distances

This paper presents results from a project investigating interdependencies among residential changes, other life course events, and transport. The main goal is to identify specific relocations and other key events during a person's life with a significant impact on changes in travel behavior. With the theoretical background of the mobility biographies approach–assuming that travel behavior is ...

Making Dough or Baking Dough?

Drawing on German household data from 1992 to 2011, this paper analyzes how couples allocate housework against the backdrop of three questions: (1) Does an individual’s contribution to household income - both in absolute and relative terms - influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If so, does the magnitude of this influence differ by gender? and (3) How important are traditional gender ...

Housework Allocation in Germany: The Role of Income and Gender Identity

Objectives This article analyzes how couples allocate housework against the backdrop of three questions: (1) Does an individual's income—both in absolute and relative terms—influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If so, does the magnitude of this influence differ by gender? and (3) How important are traditional gender roles on housework allocation? Methods We apply panel regression ...