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Maternal Employment and Happiness: The Effect of Non-Participation and Part-Time Employment on Mothers' Life Satisfaction
Berger, Eva M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
In contrast to unemployment, the effect of non-participation and parttime employment on subjective well-being has much … mothers, non-participation is revealed to be a more serious problem than unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017422
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Does a Better Job Match Make Women Happier?: Work Orientations, Work-Care Choices and Subjective Well-Being in Germany
Muffels, Ruud; Kemperman, Bauke - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
The study examines the effects of work orientations and work-leisure choices alongside the effect of genes or personality traits on subjective well-being (SWB). The former effects are assumed to be mediated by the match between women's preferred and actual number of working hours indicating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854234
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Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers?
Wunder, Christoph; Heineck, Guido - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Selfreported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch. Particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786998
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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There Is More of It Around?: A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel; Lipps, Oliver - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss … if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience …? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220611
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Well-Being in Germany: What Explains the Regional Variation?
Vatter, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
unemployment and income differ in size between regions such that one can assume increasing marginal disutility of unemployment. The …
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