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Happiness and work
Krause, Annabelle - 2014
The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … the literature investigates potential driving effects of happiness on labor market outcomes. This article will give an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403446
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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 - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269257
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Subjective well-being in China, 2005-2010 : the role of relative income, gender and location
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Kok Kheng - 2016
-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449772
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The relationship between unemployment, employment expectations and happiness in Turkey for the years: 2003-2018
Kanlıoglu, Melodi Buket; Dumludag, Devrim - In: EHERO working paper (2021) 2, pp. 1-21
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Unemployment and subjective well-being
Suppa, Nicolai - 2021
This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical evidence as obtained from popular panel data sets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417634
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people to be unhappy? : evidence from a six-country survey
Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021
Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people unhappy? In this study, we use a recent survey from China, Japan, South Korea, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore this question. We find a relatively large effect: a one per-mille point increase in the incidence of the COVID-19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422564
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Hartz and minds: happiness effects of reforming an employment agency
Deter, Max - 2020
Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment rates. However, little is known about the reforms' effect on individual life satisfaction of unemployed workers. This study applies difference-in-difference estimations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285201
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Does the unemployment rate moderate the well-being disadvantage of the unemployed? : within-region estimates from the European Social Survey
Hajdu, Gábor; Hajdu, Tamás - 2020
regarding the happiness scores. Our results do not support the “social norm of unemployment” hypothesis that states that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293991
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Happiness as a guide to labor market policy : Happiness is key to a productive economy, and a job remains key to individual happiness, also under robotization
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015
Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and … unemployment benefits or a basic income can contribute to happiness—though when such policies prolong unintended unemployment, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963237
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Does oil rent increase happiness? : a partial efficiency analysis of selected African countries
Opaleye, Seun Sylvester; Nwachukwu, Chijioke Esogwa - In: Trends economics and management 13 (2019) 34, pp. 97-111
Purpose of the article: To investigate and ascertain the impact of oil rent on happiness in selected African countries … the use of oil rent to produce happiness. Scientific aim: This study examines the relationship between oil rent, the oil … price, the GDP growth, the mineral rent and happiness. Findings: The results show that oil rent does not significantly …
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