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This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax effect on subjective well-being is significant and positive when controlling for income net of taxes. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 526)
| Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch
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Terror has become a global issue. Terror acts perpetuated by religious, nationalist or political groups around the globe can propagate distress rapidly through different channels and possibly change political attitudes. This paper suggests the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on human welfare. We combine panel datasets for Australia, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, the UK and the US. Individual ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2018,
(IZA DP No. 11597)
| Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Ahmed Elsayed
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This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit country-year variation for identification of the effect and panel data to control for migrants’ observed and unobserved ...
In:
Journal of Human Resources
52 (2017), 2, 351-373
| Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Combining data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 1998–2009 with local labor market information, this is the first paper to investigate how the spatial concentration of immigrants affects the life satisfaction of the native Germans. Our results show a positive and robust effect of immigration on natives’ well-being, which is not driven by local labor market characteristics. Immigration has only ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
103 (2014), C, 72-92
| Alpaslan Akay, Amelie F. Constant, Corrado Giulietti
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This paper investigates how ethnic diversity, measured by the immigrants' countries of origin, influences the well-being of the host country. Using panel data from Germany for the period 1998 to 2012, we find a positive effect of ethnic diversity on the well-being of German citizens. To corroborate the robustness of our results, we estimate several alternative specifications and investigate possible ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2016,
(IZA DP No. 9726)
| Alpaslan Akay, Amelie F. Constant, Corrado Giulietti, Guzim Martin
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This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day-of the-week effect. Overall, we find a 'blue' Sunday effect with the lowest level of subjective well-being. The day-of-the-week effect differs with certain ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2009,
(IZA DP No. 4563)
| Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson
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This paper uses both subjective well-being and survey experimental data to analyze how people’s positional concerns regarding income and goods vary with age. The subjective wellbeing approach is mainly based on German panel data for the period 1984-2009 (German Socio-Economic Panel), while the survey experimental approach is based on a tailor-made experimental design conducted among Swedish adults. ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2012,
(IZA DP No. 6342)
| Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson
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We investigate the effect of relative concerns with respect to income on the quantity and quality of sleep using a long panel dataset on the sleep behavior of people in Germany. We find that relative income has a substantial negative effect on number of hours of sleep on weekdays and overall satisfaction with sleep, i.e., sleep quality, whereas absolute income has no particular effect on sleep behavior. ...
Gothenburg:
University of Gothenburg,
2017,
(University of Gothenburg Working Papers in Economics No. 709)
| Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Hilda Ralsmark
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This paper provides causal evidence on the long-term legacies of postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women’s family formation outcomes such as marriage, age at first marriage and divorce. We exploit city-by-cohort variation in the intensity of World War II reconstruction in Germany which determined the mobilization of women in the postwar era. We find that participation in the postwar ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2013,
(IZA DP No. 7239)
| Mevlude Akbulut Yuksel, Melanie Khamis, Mutlu Yuksel
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This paper provides causal evidence on the long-term consequences of large-scale physical destruction on educational attainment, health status, and labor market outcomes of children. I exploit the plausibly exogenous region- by- cohort variation in the intensity of World War Two (WWII) destruction as a unique quasi- experiment. I fi nd that exposure to destruction had long- lasting detrimental effects ...
In:
Journal of Human Resources
49 (2009), 3, 634-662
| Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel