Showing 1 - 10 of 28
This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380028
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442278
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417212
' response to an exogenous shock of (un)happiness (i.e. the death of husband or wife). We conclude that SWB explains voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409808
’ response to an exogenous shock of (un)happiness (i.e. the death of husband or wife). We conclude that SWB explains voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412736
of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405676
This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398283
We show that personality traits mediate the effect of income on Life Satisfaction. The effect is strong in the case of Neuroticism, which measures the sensitivity to threat and punishment, in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism increases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009557653
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199614
For representative German panel data, we show that voluntary job switching leads to relatively high levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion interacts negatively with this effect in life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482693