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In:
Hans-Jürgen Andreß ,
Empirical Poverty Research in a Comparative Perspective
Aldershot et al.: Ashgate
229-256
| Ruud J. A. Muffels, Henk-Jan Dirven
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Colchester:
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research,
1999,
(EPAG Working Paper 1)
| Ruud J. A. Muffels, Didier Fouarge, Ronald Decker
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In:
Richard Berthoud, Maria Iacovou ,
Social Europe - Living Standards and Welfare States
Cheltenham / Northampton: Edward Elgar
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| Ruud J. A. Muffels, Joachim R. Frick, Wilfred Uunk
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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 well-being. There is a lot of theoretical ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
110 (2013), 3, 1159-1185
| Ruud J. A. Muffels, Bruce Headey
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The study examines the effects of work orientations and work-leisure choices alongside the effect of genes or personality traits on subjective well-being (SWB). The former effects are assumed to be mediated by the match between women’s preferred and actual number of working hours indicating labor market and time constraints. Data come from 24 waves of the German (SOEP) Household Panel (1984-2007). ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2011,
(SOEPpapers 361)
| Ruud J. A. Muffels, Bauke Kemperman
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In:
Bent Greve ,
Happiness and Social Policy in Europe
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
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| Heinz-Herbert Noll, Stefan Weick
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The standard of living of persons and households is not only a matter of income, but ultimately depends on the level and quality of their consumption in terms of goods and services purchased. Consumption expenditures can be regarded as the result of decisions based on the demand, preferences and limited economic resources, and are thus manifestations not only of different lifestyles, but also of inequality, ...
In:
International Review of Economics
62 (2015), 2, 101-119
| Heinz-Herbert Noll, Stefan Weick
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University of Iowa:
Department of Global Studies,
1994,
(University of Iowa - Discussion Paper)
| Holly Nollen
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In:
Social Science & Medicine
58 (2004), 1, 119-136
| Ellen Nolte, Martin McKnee
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Using long-running data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984–2012), we investigate the impact of paternal unemployment on child labour market and education outcomes. We first describe correlation patterns and then use sibling fixed effects and the Gottschalk (1996) method to identify the causal effects of paternal unemployment. We find different patterns for sons and daughters. Paternal unemployment ...
In:
Oxford Economic Papers
69 (2017), 1, 213-238
| Steffen Müller, Regina T. Riphahn, Caroline Schwientek