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  • SOEPpapers 703 / 2014

    Bowling Alone or Bowling at All? The Effect of Unemployment on Social Participation

    This article examines the impact of unemployment on social participation for Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find significant negative, robust and, for some activities, lasting effects of unemployment on social participation. Causality is established by focussing on plant closures as exogenous entries into unemployment. Social norms, labor market prospects and the perception of individual ...

    2014| Lars Kunze, Nicolai Suppa
  • SOEPpapers 695 / 2014

    Illness and Health Satisfaction: The Role of Relative Comparisons

    This paper investigates the role of relative comparisons in health status for individual health satisfaction. Previous research stresses the importance of interdependencies in subjective well-being and health arising from positional preferences and status e ects, social health norms, and comparison processes. Using representative longitudinal data from a German population survey, we estimate empirical ...

    2014| Lars Thiel
  • SOEPpapers 382 / 2011

    Behind the Curtain: The Within-Household Sharing of Income

    The distribution of personal income in a society depends strongly on the within-household distribution of income. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare economic perspective. Measures of financial satisfaction for both household partners are used to gain information about the within-household distribution of income-induced ...

    2011| Susanne Elsas
  • SOEPpapers 385 / 2011

    Capabilities and Choices: Do They Make Sen'se for Understanding Objective and Subjective Well-Being? An Empirical Test of Sen's Capability Framework on German and British Panel Data

    In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them. In this paper we examine the impact of capabilities alongside choices on subjective and objective well-being. ...

    2011| Ruud Muffels, Bruce Headey
  • SOEPpapers 351 / 2011

    Beyond GDP and Back: What Is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?

    Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective perceptions. To explore the additional information of these indicators, we analyze data on the macro level from the ...

    2011| Sonja C. Kassenböhmer, Christoph M. Schmidt
  • SOEPpapers 349 / 2010

    Happy House: Spousal Weight and Individual Well-Being

    We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the SOEP to test for social interactions in BMI between spouses. Social interactions require that the cross-partial effect of partner's weight and own weight in the utility function be positive. Using life satisfaction as a utility proxy, semi-parametric regressions show that the correlation between satisfaction and ...

    2010| Andrew E. Clark, Fabrice Etilé
  • SOEPpapers 333 / 2010

    The Selection of Pay Referents: Potential Patterns and Impacts on Life Satisfaction

    Despite the relatively extensive research on pay levels and the consequences of income disparities, little is known about which reference groups people choose for comparative evaluation of personal income and why different selection patterns emerge. The aim of this paper is to dig deeper for answers to the following three questions: (1) What are the most important reference groups for income comparisons? ...

    2010| Simone Schneider
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    How Important Is the Family? Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the USA, Germany, and Denmark

    This paper is the first to analyze the impact of family background on permanent earnings based on sibling correlations in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and USA. The main findings are that family and community background has a stronger influence on permanent earnings in Germany than in Denmark, and a comparable influence is found in USA. This holds true for both ...

    In: Journal of Population Economics 27 (2014), 1, S. 69-89 | Daniel D. Schnitzlein
  • SOEPpapers 599 / 2013

    Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima

    We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well·being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantlyincreased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down the oldest nuclear reactors, implemented the phase·out of the remaining ones, and proclaimed the transition to ...

    2013| Jan Goebel, Christian Krekel, Tim Tiefenbach, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
  • SOEPpapers 616 / 2013

    Institutional Rearing Is Associated with Lower General Life Satisfaction in Adulthood

    We analyzed whether individuals reared in institutions differ in their general life satisfaction from people raised in their families. The data comprised of 19,210 German adults (51.5% female) aged from 17 to 101 years and were provided by the SOEP, an ongoing, nationally representative longitudinal study in Germany. Compared to people raised in families, individuals reared in institutions reported ...

    2013| David Richter, Sakari Lemola
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