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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20027| Title: | The Value of Reunification in Germany: An Analysis of Changes in Life Satisfaction |
| Keywords: | C23 Z1 I31 C25 ddc:330 Life satisfaction German reunification random and fixed-effects panel models causal decomposition Lebensqualität Lebensstandard Nationale Einheit Öffentliche Meinung Schätzung Deutschland Neue Bundesländer Lebenszufriedenheit |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
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| 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. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20027 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20027 ppn:346951062 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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