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Using data from the SOEP, we analyze the wellbeing impact of underemployment through overeducation to examine a broader definition of employment loss. Persons leaving a job through exogenous reasons but entering directly into immediate employment may not find a perfect employment match and cannot use their skills fully in the new job. We demonstrate that a „downchange“, although welfare reducing, may ...
Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Department of Economics, Technische Universität Dortmund, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Department of Economics and Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI),
2013,
(Ruhr Economic Papers #423)
| John P. Haisken-DeNew, Jan Kleibrink
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Two-way causation issues are the bete noire of life satisfaction research. As acknowledged in several landmark reviews, many variables routinely reported as causes or determinants of life satisfaction could equally well be consequences, or perhaps both causes and consequences (Diener, 1984; Diener, Suh, Lucas and Smith, 1999; Argyle, 2001; Frey and Stutzer, 2002). These variables include one's ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2014,
(IZA DP No. 8665)
| Bruce Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels
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Psychologists and economists take contradictory approaches to research on what psychologists call happiness or subjective well-being, and economists call subjective utility. A direct test of the most widely accepted psychological theory, set-point theory, shows it to be flawed. Results are then given, using the economists’ newer “choice approach”—an approach also favored by positive psychologists—which ...
In:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
107 (2010), 42, 17922-17926
| Bruce Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Gert G. Wagner
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Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner’s personality, hours of work, social participation and healthy lifestyle have substantial and similar effects ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
112 (2013), 3, 725-748
| Bruce Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Gert G. Wagner
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There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for ‘children’ who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of values and behaviors known to be associated with happiness (Headey, Wagner and Muffels, 2010, 2012). These ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
116 (2014), 3, 909-933
| Bruce Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Gert G. Wagner
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users, ed. by Büchel, Felix; D'Ambrosio, Conchita and Frick, Joachim R.)
125 (2005), 1, 131-144
| Bruce Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Mark Wooden
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In:
Social Indicators Research
87 (2008), 1, 65-82
| Bruce Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Mark Wooden
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey, this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life satisfaction, while those who become less religious record long term losses. This result holds net of the effects of personality traits, and also in fixed effects ...
In:
Journal of Positive Psychology
5 (2010), 1, 73 - 82
| Bruce Headey, Jürgen Schupp, Ingrid Tucci, Gert G. Wagner
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In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate models of alternative 'recipes' for LS. There appear to be at least four distinct 'recipes', ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2018,
(SOEPpapers 982)
| Bruce Headey, Gert G. Wagner
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In most previous research on the determinants of Life Satisfaction (LS), there has been an implicit assumption that ‘one size fits all’. That is, it has usually been assumed that the covariates of LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the Western world. In this paper, using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-), we estimate statistical models to assess the effects ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
145 (2019), 2, 581-613
| Bruce Headey, Gert G. Wagner