| dc.creator |
Frijters, Paul |
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| dc.creator |
Haisken-DeNew, John P. |
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| dc.creator |
Shields, Michael A. |
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| dc.date |
2002 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-16T07:08:07Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-10-16T07:08:07Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-10-16 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20027 |
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| dc.identifier |
ppn:346951062 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20027 |
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| dc.description |
We quantify the value of changes in life circumstances in Germany following reunification. To this end, we develop and implement a fixed-effect estimator for ordinal life satisfaction in the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find strong negative effects on life satisfaction from being recently fired, losing a spouse through either death or separation and time spent in hospital, whilst we find strong positive effects from income and marriage. Using a new causal decomposition technique, we find that East Germans experienced a continued improvement in life satisfaction after 1990 to which increased household incomes contributed around 12%. Most of the increase is explained by improved average circumstances, such as public services. For West Germans, we find virtually no change in satisfaction between 1991 and 1999. |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.publisher |
|
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| dc.relation |
IZA Discussion paper series 419 |
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| dc.rights |
http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| dc.subject |
C23 |
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| dc.subject |
Z1 |
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| dc.subject |
I31 |
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| dc.subject |
C25 |
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| dc.subject |
ddc:330 |
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| dc.subject |
Life satisfaction |
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| dc.subject |
German reunification |
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| dc.subject |
random and fixed-effects |
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| dc.subject |
panel models |
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| dc.subject |
causal decomposition |
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| dc.subject |
Lebensqualität |
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| dc.subject |
Lebensstandard |
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| dc.subject |
Nationale Einheit |
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| dc.subject |
Öffentliche Meinung |
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| dc.subject |
Schätzung |
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| dc.subject |
Deutschland |
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| dc.subject |
Neue Bundesländer |
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| dc.subject |
Lebenszufriedenheit |
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| dc.title |
The Value of Reunification in Germany: An Analysis of Changes in Life Satisfaction |
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| dc.type |
doc-type:workingPaper |
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| dc.coverage |
1991-1999 |
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