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Happiness and the persistence of income shocks : conference paper
Bayer, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2013 - This version: March 1, 2013
this theory, we find that persistent shocks have a significant impact on happiness while transitory shocks do not. This has … consequences also for inference about the happiness effect of employment. We find that employment per se is rather associated with … a decline in happiness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339956
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Testing the Easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and in the UK ; conference paper
Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013 - This version: February, 2013
Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … presented in Stevenson and Wolfers (2008, BROOKINGS PAP ECO AC), we now count three exceptions supporting Easterlin s happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338942
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Cross-sectional and longitudinal equivalence scales for West Germany based on subjective data on life satisfaction : paper presented at the fifth meeting of the Society for the Stu...
Faik, Jürgen - 2013
The present study calculates variable, cross-sectional as well as longitudinal equivalence scales on the basis of the German 1984-2010 Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) database for West Germany. It follows the "individual variant" for calculating subjective equivalence scales using "life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128357