Wellbeing – wie Lebensqualität, Arbeit und Einkommen zusammenhängen
Das Streben nach Glück ist ein zentrales Element im Leben, wobei das individuelle Wohlbefinden sowohl persönliche als auch gesellschaftliche Ursachen hat. Welchen Einfluss haben Wirtschaftsentwicklung, Einkommen, der berufliche Werdegang oder Arbeitslosigkeitserfahrungen auf die subjektive Lebensqualität eines Menschen?
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Examining interindividual differences in unemployment-related changes in subjective well-being: The role of psychological well-being and re-employment expectations (2025)
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Lawes, Mario, Clemens Hetschko, Ronnie Schöb, Gesine Stephan & Michael Eid (2025): Examining interindividual differences in unemployment-related changes in subjective well-being: The role of psychological well-being and re-employment expectations. In: European Journal of Personality, Jg. 39, H. 1, S. 24-45., 2024-01-21. DOI:10.1177/08902070241231315
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"This study examined whether the six trait-like dimensions of psychological well-being (e.g., autonomy and environmental mastery) moderate the effects of unemployment on various facets of subjective well-being (i.e., life satisfaction, satisfaction with life domains, and experienced mood). Further, re-employment expectations during unemployment were investigated as a moderator in this context. The study is based on monthly panel data (Nobservations > 23,000) of two samples of initially employed German jobseekers, who either registered as jobseekers due to (i) mass layoffs or plant closures (N = 552) or (ii) other reasons (N = 988). The results indicate substantial interindividual differences in unemployment-related changes across all examined subjective well-being facets. However, dimensions of psychological well-being did generally not moderate these changes. Only in one unemployment context, environmental mastery was positively related to unemployment-related mood changes. Good re-employment expectations were related to increases in several well-being facets (e.g., leisure satisfaction) compared to being employed, whereas poor re-employment expectations were associated with particularly detrimental effects of unemployment in terms of life satisfaction. Overall, the study provides further evidence that (perceived) contextual features of unemployment seem to be particularly relevant for how individuals experience unemployment, whereas internal (coping) resources only seem to play a negligible role." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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How Perceived Job Insecurity, Voluntary Unemployment and Involuntary Job Loss Shape Couples’ Life Satisfaction (2025)
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Lebert, Florence, Oliver Lipps & Alessandro Di Nallo (2025): How Perceived Job Insecurity, Voluntary Unemployment and Involuntary Job Loss Shape Couples’ Life Satisfaction. In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Jg. 46, H. 4, S. 985-1001. DOI:10.1007/s10834-025-10062-8
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"To adequately examine the impact of job insecurity and unemployment on life satisfaction in the context of increasing de-standardisation of work arrangements, this study distinguishes nuanced forms of perceived job insecurity and unemployment and integrates them into a single scale for employment instability. These forms comprise (1) no perceived job insecurity, (2) some or (3) severe job insecurity, (4) voluntary unemployment, (5) involuntary unemployment, and (6) other reasons for unemployment. Using dyadic data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for working-age individuals and their partners, both perceived job insecurity and unemployment lead to decreased life satisfaction, with unemployment having a more pronounced impact on life satisfaction. Involuntary reasons for unemployment are more detrimental to life satisfaction than voluntary reasons. Overall, men suffer more from employment instability than women and their employment instability has a stronger impact on their female spouses’ life satisfaction than vice versa. The results are interpreted through the lens of ‘doing gender’ and ‘gender deviation’ theory." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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“I'm Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes (2025)
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Petautschnig, Carla & Virpi Timonen (2025): “I'm Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes. In: Social Policy and Society, Jg. 24, H. 4, S. 601-615. DOI:10.1017/S1474746423000490
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"Activation schemes are widely criticised, with the negative experiences of ‘the activated’ featuring prominently in the literature. This article presents the findings of a constructivist grounded theory study concerning the lived experience of long-term unemployment, welfare recipiency and community placement in activation schemes in Ireland, with a focus on the positive effects that participating in such schemes had on participants’ subjective well-being. For the participants in this research, community placement signified change, respite, and recovery that improved their subjective well-being by creating an experience that counteracted the draining experience of long-term unemployment and welfare recipiency. This study brings new elements to the discussion on the role of activation in promoting/diminishing the subjective well-being of the long-term unemployed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Diverging Paths? The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Subjective Well-Being of the Solo Self-Employed and Employees in Germany (2019–2023) (2025)
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Peters, Eileen, Merle Pohlmeyer & Karin Schulze Buschoff (2025): Diverging Paths? The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Subjective Well-Being of the Solo Self-Employed and Employees in Germany (2019–2023). In: Social indicators research, Jg. 180, H. 1, S. 183-204. DOI:10.1007/s11205-025-03640-8
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"Previous research indicates that the self-employed have higher subjective well-being (SWB) than employees. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many self-employed individuals experienced exceptionally high levels of economic stress due to limited government and social security support. This is especially true of the solo self-employed (i.e., self-employed without employees). Drawing on nationally representative panel data spanning the years 2019–2023—and thus the onset, peak, and fading out of the pandemic—we used fixed-effects regression models to analyze the SWB trajectories of the solo self-employed and employees in Germany in terms of life satisfaction and job satisfaction. Our results show that SWB was only moderately affected in 2020 but declined steeply in 2021. Although life satisfaction recovered moderately in 2022 and 2023, it remained substantially lower than pre-pandemic levels. The life satisfaction of the solo self-employed decreased more strongly than that of employees in 2020 and 2021. Job satisfaction also saw a steep decline in 2021, with solo self-employed individuals experiencing a greater drop than employees. However, the job satisfaction of the solo self-employed returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, whereas that of employees continued to decline in 2022 and 2023. These insights shed light on how the SWB of different employment groups was affected during this unprecedented crisis and provide valuable information for more effective interventions in future crises." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Lebenszufriedenheit in Deutschland: Trends, Einflussfaktoren und politische Relevanz (2025)
Potthoff, Jennifer; Gabel, Rebecca;Zitatform
Potthoff, Jennifer & Rebecca Gabel (2025): Lebenszufriedenheit in Deutschland: Trends, Einflussfaktoren und politische Relevanz. In: IW-Trends, Jg. 52, H. 4, S. 25-43. DOI:10.2373/1864-810X.25-04-02
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"Trotz aktueller Krisen bleibt das subjektive Wohlbefinden der Deutschen insgesamt hoch und erreicht gegenwärtig historische Höchstwerte wie in den 2010er Jahren. Besonders zufrieden sind junge Erwachsene und Menschen im Ruhestand, während die Lebenszufriedenheit im mittleren Alter tendenziell abnimmt – ein typischer „U-Verlauf“. Zu den zentralen Einflussfaktoren auf die Lebenszufriedenheit gehören unter anderem das Einkommen, Alter, Erwerbsstatus und die Überzeugung, das Leben durch eigenes Handeln beeinflussen zu können – die internale Kontrollüberzeugung. Dabei gilt: Personen mit stärkerer internaler Kontrollüberzeugung berichten eine höhere Lebenszufriedenheit. Mehr Geld erhöht die Zufriedenheit vor allem im unteren Einkommensbereich. Hinsichtlich der Arbeitszeit zeigt sich, dass Voll- und Teilzeitbeschäftigte deutlich zufriedener sind als geringfügig Beschäftigte. Regionale Unterschiede in der Lebenszufriedenheit bestehen, jedoch sind diese nur moderat und der Abstand schrumpft zunehmend. Spezifische Sorgenfelder, wie etwa um die eigene wirtschaftliche Situation oder die Gesundheit, beeinflussen die Lebenszufriedenheit signifikant. Die Lebenszufriedenheit ist mittlerweile ein empirisch breit untersuchter, ergänzender Wohlstandsindikator. Er ist relevant, um Gesellschaftspolitik nachhaltig und resilient zu gestalten und das Vertrauen in die Leistungsfähigkeit der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft zu stärken." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Is Job Satisfaction Related to Subjective Well-being? Causal Inference from Longitudinal Data (2025)
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Prati, Gabriele (2025): Is Job Satisfaction Related to Subjective Well-being? Causal Inference from Longitudinal Data. In: Applied Research in Quality of Life, Jg. 20, H. 1, S. 133-160. DOI:10.1007/s11482-024-10400-2
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"Previous research has demonstrated a relationship between job satisfaction and subjective well-being, particularly life satisfaction, which aligns with the spillover theory. Moreover, according to the core self-evaluations theory, core self-evaluations are hypothesized to explain the relationship between job and subjective well-being and to have a causal role in job satisfaction and subjective well-being. The aim of the current study was (1) to test these predictions of self-evaluations theory and (2) to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction and subjective well-being. Data from two national, representative longitudinal studies (i.e., the GESIS Panel study and the Swiss Household Panel study) were used. The participants consisted of approximately 20,000 individuals from Switzerland (Swiss Household Panel study) and 5,000 individuals from Germany (GESIS Panel study). A separate series of random intercept cross-lagged panel models revealed that job satisfaction and subjective well-being (except for happiness) were not reciprocally related across all study waves. Moreover, the relationship between job satisfaction and subjective well-being appears to reflect a trait-like property. Finally, core self-evaluations did not account for any part of the relationship between job and subjective well-being, and there was limited evidence that core self-evaluations can predict later subjective well-being. These results provide mixed support for both spillover and segmentation theories, as well as for some predictions of self-evaluations theory." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Reciprocity and job mobility: The effect of effort-reward imbalance in the employer-employee relationship on turnover intentions and actual job changes (2025)
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Prechsl, Sebastian (2025): Reciprocity and job mobility: The effect of effort-reward imbalance in the employer-employee relationship on turnover intentions and actual job changes. In: Social science research, Jg. 127, 2024-12-13. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103133
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"Numerous studies illustrate that a lack of reciprocity between effort and reward in the employer-employee relationship produces negative effects on employees' health and well-being. This might motivate employees to change jobs as a consequence. Based on German panel data with 16,243 observations from 4,641 employees, I analyze the effect of effort-reward imbalance (ERI) on turnover intentions and actual job changes and whether health-threatening ERI exposure affects the realization of job changes. The results indicate more frequent doctor visits, lower job satisfaction, higher turnover intentions, and higher job change probabilities when employees’ efforts in relation to rewards increase. The ERI effects on turnover intentions and job changes are both mediated through job satisfaction. Finally, I find no evidence that ERI exposure moderates the relationship between turnover intentions and actual job changes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 The Author. Published by Elsevier Inc.) ((en))
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Insbesondere Arbeitslose sind mit Partner*in zufriedener als ohne (2025)
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Prechsl, Sebastian (2025): Insbesondere Arbeitslose sind mit Partner*in zufriedener als ohne. In: IAB-Forum – Grafik aktuell H. 24.06.2025 Nürnberg, 2025-06-19. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.GA.20250624.01
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"Die Zufriedenheit mit dem eigenen Leben ist bei Beschäftigten höher als bei Arbeitslosen. Hierbei zeigen sich allerdings Unterschiede in Abhängigkeit vom Partnerschaftsstatus. Bei Beschäftigten, aber insbesondere bei Arbeitslosen, die in einer Partnerschaft leben, fällt die Lebenszufriedenheit deutlich höher aus." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Deutsches Glücksparadoxon: trotz Krisenstimmung steigende Lebenszufriedenheit (2025)
Renz, Timon;Zitatform
Renz, Timon (2025): Deutsches Glücksparadoxon: trotz Krisenstimmung steigende Lebenszufriedenheit. In: Wirtschaftsdienst, Jg. 105, H. 5, S. 382-386. DOI:10.2478/wd-2025-0095
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"Es scheint paradox: In Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft häufen sich krisenhafte Ereignisse, gleichzeitig aber nimmt die Lebenszufriedenheit der Deutschen seit 2021 stetig zu. Mit den Daten des Glücksatlas von 2011 bis 2024 wird gezeigt, dass mindestens drei Ursachen für die aktuell zunehmende Lebenszufriedenheit ausgemacht werden können. Erstens erholen sich Bevölkerungsgruppen, die von der Coronapandemie besonders belastet waren (Frauen, junge Erwachsene), derzeit überproportional stark. Darüber hinaus gibt es zweitens einen Einkommens- und Konsumeffekt: Die Deutschen reisen wieder mehr und es zeigt sich eine deutlich gestiegene Einkommenszufriedenheit, da die inflationsbedingten Kaufkraftverluste weitestgehend kompensiert wurden. Drittens tragen die gestiegene Flexibilisierung der Arbeit, z. B. durch Homeoffice, und die gesunkene Arbeitszeit zur Lebenszufriedenheit bei." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Workplace Discrimination Against Pregnant and Postpartum Employees: Links to Well-Being (2025)
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Schneider, Kimberly T., Sarah C. Williams & Rory E. Kuhn (2025): Workplace Discrimination Against Pregnant and Postpartum Employees: Links to Well-Being. In: International journal of environmental research and public health, Jg. 22, H. 8. DOI:10.3390/ijerph22081160
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"Pregnancy-related discrimination at work is a concern for many employees who navigate the pregnancy and postpartum stages of parenthood while working in the early-to-middle stages of their careers. Although there is legislation prohibiting pregnancy-related discrimination and ensuring accommodations postpartum, empirical evidence indicates many pregnant and postpartum employees still experience such behaviors. In this narrative review, we focus on describing the range of behaviors assessed in studies on pregnancy-related discrimination in several cultures, situating the occurrence of discrimination within theoretical frameworks related to stereotypes and gendered expectations. We also review evidence of employees’ postpartum experiences with a focus on the transition back to work, along with breastfeeding challenges related to pumping and storing milk at work. Regarding coping with pregnancy-related workplace discrimination and postpartum challenges during a return to work, we review the importance of social support, including instrumental and emotional support from allies and role models." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland und der Europäischen Union: IW-Verteilungsreport 2025 (2025)
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Stockhausen, Maximilian, Judith Niehues & Henrik Engel (2025): Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland und der Europäischen Union. IW-Verteilungsreport 2025. (IW-Report / Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln 2025,66), Köln, 34 S.
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"Trotz Rezession und Inflation lag Deutschland auch im Jahr 2023 unter den fünf Ländern der Europäischen Union (EU) mit der höchsten mittleren Kaufkraft der Einkommen. Obwohl die subjektiven Bewertungen des Haushaltsnettoeinkommens gegenüber dem Beginn der Coronapandemie - wie in vielen der einkommensstarken Länder - etwas negativer ausfallen, gibt es innerhalb der EU weiterhin nur wenige Länder, in denen die Einschätzungen positiver sind als in Deutschland. Tatsächlich berichteten in der europäischen Erhebung über Einkommen und Lebensbedingungen (EU-SILC) im Jahr 2023 in keinem der EU-27-Staaten weniger Menschen, relativ schlecht, schlecht oder sehr schlecht mit ihrem Einkommen auszukommen - und nur in den Niederlanden, Luxemburg und Schweden gaben mehr Menschen an, finanziell gut oder sehr gut zurechtzukommen. Dies spiegelt sich auch in der Entwicklung der Einkommensungleichheit wider. So zeichnet sich nach 2020 sowohl auf Basis des EU-SILC als auch des Mikrozensus (MZ) eine im Wesentlichen stabile Einkommensverteilung auf einem Niveau des Gini-Koeffizienten von 0,3 oder knapp darunter ab. Im europäischen Vergleich ein durchschnittliches Niveau, welches ähnlich zu Schweden ist, und das sich seit 2005 auf Basis der Mikrodaten der amtlichen Statistik in Deutschland kaum verändert hat. Das Einkommensarmutsrisiko (präziser: Niedrigeinkommensquote) ist im EU-27-Vergleich unterdurchschnittlich ausgeprägt und hat sich nach überwiegender Datenlage nach 2020 strukturell nicht verschlechtert. Bezüglich der langfristigen Entwicklung des Armutsrisikos gilt es zu beachten, dass unterschiedliche Datenquellen teilweise voneinander abweichende Trends aufweisen. Während im EU-SILC die Entwicklung des Armutsrisikos zwischen 2008 und 2023 weitestgehend unauffällig bleibt und sich im Bereich von 15 Prozent bis 16 Prozent bewegt, zeichnet sich im MZ zwischen 2005 und bis zum Zeitreihenbruch im Jahr 2019 zunächst ein ansteigender Trend ab, der sich in großen Teilen durch die erhöhte Zuwanderung seit 2010 erklären lässt. Nach dem Jahr 2020 ist die Niedrigeinkommensquote - bei gleichzeitig sinkender realer Niedrigeinkommensschwelle - auf Basis des MZ leicht rückläufig. Vor dem Hintergrund der krisengeprägten Entwicklungen der vergangenen Jahre kann die in der Gesamtschau weitestgehend stabile Verteilungssituation durchaus als positiv bewertet werden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Semiparametric Bayesian estimation in an ordinal probit model with application to life satisfaction across countries, age and gender (2025)
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Tobias, Justin L. & Timothy N. Bond (2025): Semiparametric Bayesian estimation in an ordinal probit model with application to life satisfaction across countries, age and gender. In: Journal of econometrics. DOI:10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105917
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"We employ a novel semiparametric Bayesian ordinal probit model to re-examine the relationships between age and life satisfaction (“happiness”) across countries and gender. Within our ordinal choice framework we introduce a new scheme for cutpoint simulation and develop a locally adaptive method for smoothing an otherwise erratic collection of age dummy variable coefficients. We find strong evidence that employment status is deeply intertwined with the reported happiness of men, that employment status is relatively more important for men than it is for women, and that the common use of quadratic models to report ages when happiness is minimized can produce inference that is inaccurate and misleadingly precise. We also find evidence that refines the “U”-shaped pattern between age and happiness that has been reported and/or debated in this literature: For men in most of the European countries we consider, happiness is found to rise sharply before traditional retirement age and then into the beginning of retirement, followed by a flattening or decline in the right-tail of the age distribution. Often-used models that are quadratic in age fail to reproduce this pattern and are frequently at odds with the data." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.) ((en))
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Happy Work, Happy Life? A Replication and Comparison of the Longitudinal Effects Between Job and Life Satisfaction Using Continuous Time Meta‐Analysis (2025)
Wiese, Christopher W. ; Li, Yuhua; Tay, Louis ; Wille, Bart ; Vaziri, Hoda ; Chen, Job; Dormann, Christian ; Moran, Lauren H.;Zitatform
Wiese, Christopher W., Christian Dormann, Hoda Vaziri, Louis Tay, Bart Wille, Job Chen, Lauren H. Moran & Yuhua Li (2025): Happy Work, Happy Life? A Replication and Comparison of the Longitudinal Effects Between Job and Life Satisfaction Using Continuous Time Meta‐Analysis. In: Journal of organizational behavior, Jg. 46, H. 4, S. 487-511. DOI:10.1002/job.2861
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"Capturing the evolving journey of workers' well-being, our research unveils how the intertwined paths of job and life satisfaction shift and shape each other over time. We contribute to the field's understanding of the dynamic interplay between job and life satisfaction by exploring the time-bound nature of satisfaction, teasing apart the between- and within-person effects, and uncovering the relative strengths of these effects. Our findings (k = 28; N = 161 412) suggest that (1) job and life satisfaction are related to one another over time, (2) life satisfaction has a stronger effect (+32%) on future job satisfaction than the converse, (3) these effects peak around 17.2 months (between-person effects), and (4) effects peak at shorter intervals of 8.2 months when accounting for unobserved heterogeneity (within-person effects). In the latter case, the differences between the two effects were still significant, but the dominance of life satisfaction shrank from 32% to 8%. This investigation not only bridges critical gaps but also sets a new precedent for future research on the temporal dynamics of well-being, promising to transform theoretical perspectives and practical approaches alike." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Between-Firm Inequality and Informal Social Relations (2025)
Wilmers, Nathan E.; Zhang, Victoria; Tong, Di;Zitatform
Wilmers, Nathan E., Victoria Zhang & Di Tong (2025): Between-Firm Inequality and Informal Social Relations. In: American journal of sociology, Jg. 130, H. 5, S. 1217-1262. DOI:10.1086/734909
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"Employer investment, social closure, peer networks: substantial research highlights differences in informal social structure across workplaces. Yet studies of pay inequality between firms have largely neglected these differences in favor of more easily measurable features like firm size or ownership structure. We show how three types of workplace social relations shape firm pay setting: employer relational investment that supports higher wages, social closure as a source of bargaining power, and amenity ties that lock workers into jobs despite low pay. To operationalize these concepts, we draw on text data from a large archive of job reviews. Variance decomposition analyses show that differences in social relations account for up to 20% of overall inequality in between-firm pay premiums and 7% of residual inequality. Differences in informal social organization, and not just formal organization, predict pay differences between firms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Measuring quality of life under spatial frictions (2024)
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Ahlfeldt, Gabriel, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth & Tobias Seidel (2024): Measuring quality of life under spatial frictions. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17549), Bonn, 56 S.
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"Using a quantitative spatial model as a data-generating process, we explore how spatial frictions affect the measurement of quality of life. We find that under a canonical parameterization, mobility frictions - generated by idiosyncratic tastes and local ties - dominate trade frictions - generated by trade costs and non-tradable services - as a source of measurement error in the Rosen-Roback framework. This non-classical measurement error leads to a downward bias in estimates of the urban quality-of-life premium. Our application to Germany reveals that accounting for spatial frictions results in larger quality-of-life differences, different quality-of-life rankings, and an urban quality-of-life premium that exceeds the urban wage premium." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Measuring quality of life under spatial frictions (2024)
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Ahlfeldt, Gabriel, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth & Tobias Seidel (2024): Measuring quality of life under spatial frictions. (CEPR discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 19769), London, 56 S.
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"Using a quantitative spatial model as a data-generating process, we explore how spatial frictions affect the measurement of quality of life. We find that under a canonical parameterization, mobility frictions - generated by idiosyncratic tastes and local ties - dominate trade frictions - generated by trade costs and non-tradable Services - as a source of measurement error in the Rosen-Roback framework. This non-classical measurement error leads to a downward bias in estimates of the urban quality-of-life premium. Our application to Germany reveals that accounting for spatial frictions results in larger quality-of-life differences, different quality-of-life rankings, and an urban quality-of-life premium that exceeds the urban wage premium." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Measuring quality of life under spatial frictions (2024)
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Ahlfeldt, Gabriel, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth & Tobias Seidel (2024): Measuring quality of life under spatial frictions. (Discussion paper / Berlin School of Economics 0057), Berlin, 56 S. DOI:10.48462/opus4-5676
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"Using a quantitative spatial model as a data-generating process, we explore how spatial frictions affect the measurement of quality of life. We find that under a canonical parameterization, mobility frictions - generated by idiosyncratic tastes and local ties - dominate trade frictions - generated by trade costs and non-tradable Services - as a source of measurement error in the Rosen-Roback framework. This non-classical measurement error leads to a downward bias in estimates of the urban quality-of-life premium. Our application to Germany reveals that accounting for spatial frictions results in larger quality-of-life differences, different quality-of-life rankings, and an urban quality-of-life premium that exceeds the urban wage premium." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Measuring quality of life under spatial frictions (2024)
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Ahlfeldt, Gabriel, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth & Tobias Seidel (2024): Measuring quality of life under spatial frictions. (CEP discussion paper / Centre for Economic Performance 2061), London, 56 S.
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"Using a quantitative spatial model as a data-generating process, we explore how spatial frictions affect the measurement of quality of life. We find that under a canonical parameterization, mobility frictions - generated by idiosyncratic tastes and local ties - dominate trade frictions - generated by trade costs and non-tradable services - as a source of measurement error in the Rosen-Roback framework. This non-classical measurement error leads to a downward bias in estimates of the urban quality-of-life premium. Our application to Germany reveals that accounting for spatial frictions results in larger quality-of-life differences, different quality-of-life rankings, and an urban quality-of-life premium that exceeds the urban wage premium." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Evening Work and Its Relationship with Couple Time (2024)
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Ambiel, Benjamin Samuel, Ingmar Rapp & Jonathan Simon Gruhler (2024): Evening Work and Its Relationship with Couple Time. In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Jg. 45, H. 3, S. 621-635. DOI:10.1007/s10834-023-09934-8
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"This article examines the relationship between couple time and nonstandard working time, in particular evening work, using household-based time use data from Germany. We analyzed three measures of couple time: total time couples spend together, engaged leisure time and other couple time. Engaged leisure includes joint leisure activities and a mutual acknowledgement of the partner's presence, while other couple time includes the performance of different activities or joint unpaid work. The results of multiple OLS-regressions on data from 1957 couples across 5871 diary days strongly suggest that evening work reduces not only total couple time but also specifically engaged leisure time. In contrast, other couple time is less affected by time spent in paid evening work. As engaged leisure time is strongly related to relationship stability and satisfaction, it can be assumed that evening work has negative effects on intimate relationships." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Entrepreneurial worries: Self-employment and potential loss of well-being (2024)
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Binder, Martin (2024): Entrepreneurial worries: Self-employment and potential loss of well-being. In: Journal of Economic Psychology, Jg. 105. DOI:10.1016/j.joep.2024.102773
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"The relationship between self-employment and life satisfaction has been shown to be heterogeneous in the literature. This paper analyzes a channel through which lower well-being can come about for the self-employed, namely, their worries about their business (“entrepreneurial worries”). Using a two-way fixed effects estimator on German panel data (1984–2020), I find no overall effect of becoming self-employed on life satisfaction, and heterogeneity analysis shows that only those self-employed individuals who change from unemployment to self-employment report higher life satisfaction. Mediation analysis reveals that worries about one’s financial situation (and, to some extent, job security) mediate the relationship between self-employment and life satisfaction. Life satisfaction decreases as self-employed individuals worry more about their financial situation as a result of becoming self-employed. Only if one does not worry about one’s financial situation at all does self-employment contributepositively to life satisfaction." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V.) ((en))