592 research outputs found
Working Profiles and Employment Regimes in European Panel Perspective
Full text linkUsing longitudinal information on labour market participation we analyse the dynamics of unemployment in Europe. We focus in particular on individuals with a poor attachment to the labour market. The countries under scrutiny are clustered into four ideal-typical welfare regimes. Overall, a remarkable stability with respect to permanent employment is observed. But on the other end, there also is a substantial mobility between secure en insecure jobs. Nevertheless, mobility from insecure employment to secure employment is found to be larger in liberal and social-democratic countries than in Southern Europe.Labour Market; social exclusion; labour market mobility; labour market dynamics; insecure employment; European Community Household Panel
Longitudinal Poverty and Income Inequality A Comparative Panel Study for The Netherlands, Germany and the UK
Full text linkThe increasing availability of longitudinal data on income in Europe greatly facilitates the analysis of income and poverty dynamics. In this paper, the results of longitudinal data analyses on income and poverty in three European welfare states are reported. Using panel data for Germany, the Netherlands and the UK a variety of longitudinal inequality and poverty measures have been applied to reveal these dynamics. The focus will be on so-called poverty profiles indicating whether people belong to the permanent poor, the transient poor, the recurrent poor or the never poor. Multinomial regression models are estimated that aim to explain the likelihood of belonging to each of the poverty profiles over time and on the events that trigger the belonging to the poverty profiles over time. Our results show that there is a great deal of economic mobility in and out of poverty over time. Most of the poor are only poor for a short period of time but, nevertheless, a substantial part of the population is found to be persistent poor. This is particularly the case in the UK. In matured welfare states, income mobility and persistency of poverty are co-occurring. Our analysis of poverty profiles shows that especially labour market events trigger the belonging to the persistent, the recurrent or the transient poor.income dynamics; poverty; comparative analysis; welfare states; panel data, multinomial logit models
The Dutch labour market in European perspective:Youngsters mobile, older workers fxed on the base
No full textVergeleken met andere Europeanen veranderen Nederlandse jongeren relatief vaak van baan, maar ouderen juist weinig. Met deze sterke tweedeling in arbeidsmarkt-mobiliteit naar leeftijd onderscheidt Nederland zich van andere Europese landen. Dit laat een vergelijking van recente arbeidsmarktcijfers door Anja Deelen, Rob Euwals en Ruud Muffels zien
De Nederlandse arbeidsmarkt in Europees perspectief: Jongeren mobiel, ouderen honkvast
No full textVergeleken met andere Europeanen veranderen Nederlandse jongeren relatief vaak van baan, maar ouderen juist weinig. Met deze sterke tweedeling in arbeidsmarkt-mobiliteit naar leeftijd onderscheidt Nederland zich van andere Europese landen. Dit laat een vergelijking van recente arbeidsmarktcijfers door Anja Deelen, Rob Euwals en Ruud Muffels zien
Wage Mobility in Europe. A Comparative Analysis Using restricted Multinomial Logit Regression
Full text linkIn this paper, we investigate cross-country differences in wage mobility in Europe using the European Community Household Panel. The paper is particularly focused on examining the impact of economic conditions, welfare state regimes and employment regulation on wage mobility. We apply a log-linear approach that is very much similar to a restricted multinomial logit model and much more flexible than the standard probit approach. It appears that regime, economic conditions and employment regulation explain a substantial part of the cross-country variation. The findings also confirm the existence of an inverse U-shape pattern of wage mobility, showing a great deal of low and high-wage persistence in all countries.wages; wage mobility; wage dynamics; multinomial logit regression; loglinear models; welfare states
Choices Which Change Life Satisfaction: Similar Results for Australia, Britain and Germany
Full text linkUsing data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work, social participation and healthy lifestyle have substantial and similar effects on life satisfaction. The results have negative implications for a widely accepted theory of SWB, set-point theory. This theory holds that adult SWB is stable in the medium and long term, although temporary fluctuations occur due to life events. Set-point theory has come under increasing criticism in recent years, primarily due to unmistakable evidence in the German Socio-Economic Panel that, during the last 25 years, over a third of the population has recorded substantial and apparently permanent changes in life satisfaction (Fujita and Diener, 2005; Headey, 2008a; Headey, Muffels and Wagner, 2010). It is becoming clear that the main challenge now for SWB researchers is to develop new explanations which can account for medium and long term change, and not merely stability in SWB. Set-point theory is limited precisely because it is purely a theory of stability. The paper is based on specially constructed panel survey files in which data are divided into multi-year periods in order to facilitate analysis of medium and long term change.set-point theory, life goals/values, individual choice, panel regression analysis, BHPS, HILDA, SOEP
If money does not buy much happiness, what does? A multilevel analysis on the impact of absolute and relative income, social values, and modernization on subjective well-being in Europe.
No full textIntroduction and research questions from the rich literature on happiness and subjective well-being we know that money does not buy happiness (Diener, 1999; headey, Muffels & Wooden, 2008). this is known as easterlin’s paradox, which posits that beyond a certain level of gross domestic product (gDp) per capita wealthier nations are not better off in terms of subjective well-being than less wealthy nations, whereas within countries absolute income pays off in terms of happiness though at a diminishing rate (easterlin, 1974, 2001, 2003). the easterlin paradox is explained by the mechanism of habituation or adaptation, according to which people are presumed to be in a sort of ‘hedonic treadmill’: due to rising aspirations, increases in wealth do not lead to steady increases in happiness. the paradox is challenged in a seminal paper by Stevenson and Wolfers (2008), who used the World values Survey, the
Income, values and subjective wellbeing in Europe:results from the EVS 1999-2017 data
No full textThe basic idea is to view the effects of objective and subjective modernisation on subjective wellbeing (SWB). Objective modernisation refers to the nation’s socio-economic development, indicated by GDP, absolute and relative income, and income inequality. Subjective modernisation refers to people’s modernisation values including work and social values. Modernisation values used are (post-)materialism and gender-role and leisure time values. Work and social values pertain to work ethos and intrinsic or extrinsic work orientationsand to trust in other people and the importance of family and friends and how leisure time is valued. The EVS data used cover a period of 20 years. A multi-level regression model has been estimated with modernisationindicators on country and individual level and controls for gender, age, personal income, health and health behaviour (sports). The story found is clear. The findings illustrate the strong effects of absolute and relative income for people’s happiness, but, allegedly, more interesting are the strong effects of work and social values on SWB and the smaller but significant effects of all modernisation values which appear rather stable over time. People who hold strong social values gain in happiness because they engage more in social networks and relationships
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