Life Satisfaction in Germany after Reunification: Additional Insights on the Pattern of Convergence
Life Satisfaction in Germany after Reunification: Additional Insights on the Pattern of Convergence
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统一后德国的生活满意度：对趋同模式的额外见解
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10.1515/jbnst-2015-1010
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2015
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通讯作者：
I. Petrunyk
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作者：
C. Pfeifer;I. Petrunyk
作者利用德国社会经济小组 (SOEP) 1992 年至 2013 年的数据，更新了之前关于东西方整体生活满意度总差距及其趋势的研究结果。此外，还分别分析了男性和女性以及四个出生队列的东西方差距及其趋势。结果表明，东德联邦州的生活满意度平均显着低于西德联邦州，东西方原始差距的部分原因是家庭收入和失业状况的差异。有条件的东西方差距在德国统一后的头几年有所缩小，并自九十年代中期以来保持相当稳定和相当大的水平。结果进一步表明，性别差异很小。但东西方的差距要小得多，并且显示出年轻出生群体趋同的趋势。
The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for four birth cohorts. The results indicate that reported life satisfaction is on average significantly lower in East than in West German federal states and that part of the raw East-West gap is due to differences in household income and unemployment status. The conditional East-West gap decreased in the first years after the German reunification and remained quite stable and sizeable since the mid-nineties. The results further indicate that gender differences are small. But the East-West gap is significantly smaller and shows a trend towards convergence for younger birth cohorts.