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The reasons why the lower educated divorce more than the higher educated in many societies today are poorly understood. Distinct divorce risks by education could be caused by variation in pressures to the couple, commitment, or relationship skills. We concentrate on the latter explanation by looking at the distribution of personality traits across society and its impact on the educational gradient ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 487)
| Diederik Boertien, Christian von Scheve, Mona Park
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In:
Economics Letters
94 (2007), 3, 332-337
| Stefan Boes, Markus Lipp, Rainer Winkelmann
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Zurich:
University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute,
2007,
(SOI Working Paper No. 0713)
| Stefan Boes, Kevin E. Staub, Rainer Winkelmann
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This paper studies the effect of income rank on satisfaction. We hypothesize that a person's satisfaction depends on a comparison of own rank and rank of one's parents. Estimates using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel support the relative rank hypothesis.
In:
Economics Letters
109 (2010), 3, 168-170
| Stefan Boes, Kevin E. Staub, Rainer Winkelmann
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2004,
(IZA DP No. 1175)
| Stefan Boes, Rainer Winkelmann
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In:
Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv (ASTA)
90 (2006), 1, 167-181
| Stefan Boes, Rainer Winkelmann
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Increasing evidence from the empirical economic and psychological literature suggests that positive and negative well-being are more than opposite ends of the same phenomenon. Two separate measures of the dependent variable may therefore be needed when analyzing the determinants of subjective well-being. We investigate asymmetries in the effect of income on subjective well-being with a single-item ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
95 (2010), 1, 111-128
| Stefan Boes, Rainer Winkelmann
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Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the one hand, higher progressivity distorts individual labour supply decisions at the hours-of-work margin, on the other hand, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a numerical model for Germany. The model combines ...
Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research,
2010,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 10-035)
| Stefan Boeters
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Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW),
2008,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-043)
| Stefan Boeters, Michael Feil
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Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW),
2004,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 04-20)
| Stefan Boeters, Michael Feil, Nicole Gürtzgen