Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification

被引：50

作者：

Easterlin, Richard A. ^{[1
]}

Plagnol, Anke C. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ So Calif, Dept Econ, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA

[2] Univ Cambridge, Free Sch Lane, Fac Social & Polit Sci, Dept Sociol, Cambridge CB2 3RQ, England

来源：

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION | 2008年 / 68卷 / 3-4期

基金：

英国经济与社会研究理事会;

关键词：

Life satisfaction; Happiness; Relative income; Income satisfaction; Transition economies;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jebo.2008.06.009

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Economic disruption in East Germany at the time Of Unification resulted in a noticeable drop in life satisfaction. By the late 1990s East Germany's life satisfaction had recovered to about its 1990 level, and its shortfall relative to West Germany was slightly less than that before unification. In West Germany life satisfaction was fairly constant before unification, but Subsequently trended moderately downward, with Turkish life satisfaction declining noticeably relative to Germans. Changes in life satisfaction in East and West Germany both for Germans and foreigners are most closely associated with relative income variables, not absolute income. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：433 / 444

页数：12

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