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Happiness Adaptation to Income Beyond "Basic Needs" (chapter 8)

Labor income uncertainty, skewness and homeownership: A panel data study for Germany and Spain

In this paper we empirically investigate the effect of labor income uncertainty on the probability of homeownership in Germany and Spain. This study is motivated by two facts. Firstly, theoretical models tend to provide ambiguous results on this issue. Secondly, previous empirical evidence focuses exclusively on the US housing market. To carry out our analysis we propose more precise income uncertainty ...

Housing Satisfaction, Homeownership and Housing Mobility: A Panel Data Analysis for Twelve EU Countries

Fears and realisations of employment insecurity

We investigate the validity of subjective data on expectations of job loss and on the probability of re-employment consequent on job loss, by examining associations between expectations and realisations. We find that subjective expectations data reveal private information about subsequent realisations both of job loss and of subsequent re-employment. We also compare the use of verbal and numerical ...

Fertility and Family Income on the Move: An International Comparison Over 20 Years

The Lifetime Earnings Premium in the Public Sector: The View from Europe

In a context of widespread concern about budget deficits, it is important to assess whether public sector pay is in line with the private sector. Our paper proposes an estimation of differences in lifetime values of employment between public and private sectors for five European countries. We use data from the European Community Household Panel over the period 1994–2001 for Germany, the Netherlands, ...

Essays on the Economics of Energy Markets. Security of Supply and Greenhouse Gas Abatement (Dissertation)

Financing Social Security - Simulating Different Welfare State Systems for Germany

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system increases inequality and poverty, as well as labour supply incentives. The introduction of the Social-democratic ...

Importing a Successful System? Simulating Different Regimes of Financing Social Security for Germany

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany with its typical Conservative welfare state regime. For our analysis, we rely on the European static multinational microsimulation model EUROMOD, which provides the opportunity to implement the financing systems of other ...

A stalled revolution? What can we learn from women’s drop-out to part-time jobs: A comparative analysis of Germany and the UK

This study examines how within-couple inequalities, that is power differences between men and women in a partnership, act as predictors of transitions from full-time to part-time employment applying Heckman corrected probit models in three different institutional and cultural contexts; Eastern Germany, Western Germany and the United Kingdom. The analyses show that when women are in a weaker position ...