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Using the german socio-economic panel study to assess age-related changes in life satisfaction

Do People Really Adapt to Marriage?

Reexamining Adaptation and the Set Point Model of Happiness: Reactions to Changes in Marital Status

According to adaptation theory, individuals react to events but quickly adapt back to baseline levels of subjective well-being. To test this idea, the authors used data from a 15-year longitudinal study of over 24,000 individuals to examine the effects of marital transitions on life satisfaction. On average, individuals reacted to events and then adapted back toward baseline levels. However, there ...

Unemployment Alters the Set-Point of Life Satisfaction

According to set-point theories of subjective well-being, people react to events but then return to baseline levels of happiness and satisfaction over time. We tested this idea by examining reaction and adaptation to unemployment in a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 24,000 individuals living in Germany. In accordance with set-point theories, individuals reacted strongly to unemployment and ...

How stable is happiness? Using the STARTS model to estimate the stability of life satisfaction

A common interpretation of existing subjective well-being research is that long-term levels of well-being are almost completely stable. However, few studies have estimated stability and change using appropriate statistical models that can precisely address this question. The STARTS model (Kenny & Zautra, 2001) was used to analyze life satisfaction data from two nationally representative panel studies. ...

Dual Embeddedness: Informal Job Matching and Labor Market Institutions in the United States and Germany

Drawing on the embeddedness, varieties of capitalism and macrosociological life course perspectives, we examine how institutional arrangements affect network-based job finding behaviors in the United States and Germany. Analysis of cross-national survey data reveals that informal job matching is highly clustered among specific types of individuals and firms in the United States, whereas it is more ...

Search, Effort, and Locus of Control

We test the hypothesis that locus of control - one’s perception of control over events in life - influences search by affecting beliefs about the efficacy of search effort in a laboratory experiment. We find that reservation offers and effort are increasing in the belief that one’s efforts influence outcomes when subjects exert effort without knowing how effort influences the generation of offers but ...

Who benefits? A Comparison of Welfare and Outcomes for the Unemployed in Britain and Germany (Dissertation)

How do different welfare states respond to the challenge of unemployment? Comparing Britain and Germany in the 1990s, the main focus of this thesis is on how welfare policies affect outcomes for individuals unemployed persons. The interaction of the state, labour markets and household structures is considered crucial in understanding these outcomes. The selection of countries – Britain and Germany ...

Dealing with negative marginal utilities in the discrete choice modelling of labour supply

In discrete choice labor supply analysis, it is often reasonably expected that utility will increase with income. Yet, analyses based on discrete choice models sometimes mention that, when no restriction is imposed a priori in the optimization program, the monotonicity condition is not fully satisfied ex post. In order to overcome this limitation, some authors impose restrictions that may appear to ...

Lessons from Building and Using Euromod