[…] decision to migrate is based on the expected benefits of moving relative to the costs. However for couple households the migration decision is complicated by its potential impact on the employment, earnings, and well-being of both spouses. In particular, dual-earner families, which are more and more prevalent, may face a situation where one spouse […]

[…] show that the both the form of the incentive, gift or money, and the way in which the incentive is delivered to the respondent has a measurable impact on response rates. A monetary incentive sent to the respondent in advance of the interview has the greatest effect on increasing response, regardless of the amount […]

[…] on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item-non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent means to cope with this type of measurement error on prototypical analyses (income inequality, income mobility and wage regressions) in a […]

[…] less likely to marry someone like themselves. We take advantage of two datasets which have diary-based information on time use of both couple members to test the impact of homogamy on similarity of family beliefs, of work patterns, and of leisure activities, while controlling for family circumstances. Further, as one of the datasets is […]

[…] increasingly view domestic pets as befoulers of pavements and green spaces as well as producers of hairs which allegedly cause asthma among children. This paper examines the impact of living with domestic pets on daily activity patterns using three data sets, comparing the daily activity patterns, particularly time in travel, time in paid and […]

[…] particular we would like to understand if differences in the reported job dissatisfaction between European countries reflect a rescaling of the dissatisfaction measures or, also, a different impact of the job dissatisfaction determinants. To this aim we estimate dissatisfaction models separately by country using fixed effects logit models. We test the equality of the […]

[…] annual individual labor income from three representative panel dataset (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement error on prototypical analyses (earnings inequality, mobility and wage regressions) in a […]

[…] the relationship between education qualifications and different well-being measures. Equivalised income, consumption, and a needs-based measure of well-being for older people (the CASP-19) show a significantly positive impact of each additional education level yet a negative relationship is found for mental health (GHQ12) and life satisfaction measures. Possible reasons for this are explored. Additional […]