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Gender Differences in Life Satisfaction and Social Participation

This paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, I present gender specific differences for several social activities, such as club memberships of political, welfare, health or more leisure time orientated groups. These activities have different impacts on male or female satisfaction. While sports and ...

The kids are alright? A note on parental satisfaction in Germany

In social sciences, research of satisfaction presents mixed or negative effects of parental satisfaction (e.g. Powdthavee 2009, Hansen 2012), while recent findings show that socio-economic differences matter (e.g. Myrskylä/Margolis 2014, Pollmann-Schult, 2014). Here, we use long run German panel data with fixed effects regressions and interaction terms to analyze the effects of birth on parental satisfaction. ...

Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates: A Labor Supply-Side Perspective

This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employment if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the latter depend on workers’ productivity and firms’ decisions, reservation wages are largely determined by workers’ endowments ...

On the interpretation of non-cognitive skills - What is being measured and why it matters

Across academic sub-fields such as labor, education, and behavioral economics, the measurement and interpretation of non-cognitive skills varies widely. As a result, it is difficult to compare results on the importance of non-cognitive skills across literatures. Drawing from these literatures, this paper systematically relates various prototypical non-cognitive measures within one data set. Specifically, ...

The Economic Consequences of Widowhood on Elderly Women in the United States and Germany

Is There an American Way of Aging?: Income Dynamics of Elderly in the U.S. and Germany

Firing Costs, Employment Fluctuations and Average Employment: An Examination of Germany

The Effect of Unemployment Compensation on Unemployment Duration in Germany

Hours Reductions as Work-Sharing

Has Work-Sharing Worked in Germany?