Migration, social stratification and dynamic effects on subjective well being.

Using German panel data and relying on internal relocation, this paper investigates the anticipation and adaptation of subjective well-being (SWB) in the course of migration. We hypothesize that SWB correlates with the process of migration, and that such correlations are at least partly socially stratified. Our fixed-effects regressions show no evidence of any anticipation of SWB before the event of migration, but a highly significant and sustained positive adaptation effect.

Dynamics of volunteering in older Europeans.

Purpose: To investigate the dynamics of volunteering in the population aged 50 years or older across 11 Continental European countries.

Design And Methods: Using longitudinal data from the first 2 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, we run multivariate regressions on a set of binary-dependent variables indicating transitions from active volunteering to inactivity and vice versa.

Results: Volunteer transitions were affected by both time-invariant individual resources and changes in individuals' resources.