Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification: Additional insights on the pattern of convergence
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Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2015. (Working Paper Series in Economics; No. 337).
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T1 - Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification: Additional insights on the pattern of convergence
AU - Pfeifer, Christian
AU - Petrunyk, Inna
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The authors update previous findings and add new insights on the East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1992-2013). The results indicate that (1) part of the raw East-West gap is due to differences in household income and unemployment status, (2) the conditional East-West gap decreased in the first years after the German reunification and remained quite stable and sizeable since the mid-nineties, (3) gender differences are small, and (4) the East-West gap is smaller and shows a trend towards convergence for the younger birth cohorts.
AB - The authors update previous findings and add new insights on the East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1992-2013). The results indicate that (1) part of the raw East-West gap is due to differences in household income and unemployment status, (2) the conditional East-West gap decreased in the first years after the German reunification and remained quite stable and sizeable since the mid-nineties, (3) gender differences are small, and (4) the East-West gap is smaller and shows a trend towards convergence for the younger birth cohorts.
KW - Economics
KW - Germany
KW - Happiness
KW - Life satisfaction
KW - Reunification
KW - Trends
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Working Paper Series in Economics
BT - Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification: Additional insights on the pattern of convergence
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -