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Why some people are not as happy as they could be : the role of unobservable subjective factors
Amendola, Adalgiso; Dell' Anno, Roberto; Parisi, Lavinia - 2020
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Cross-sectional analyses of self-employed and directly employed workers' job-specific well-being in creative and corporate workplaces
Maguire, Larry Gerard; Hyland, John - In: DBS business review : an international academic … 4 (2021), pp. 4-25
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Measuring progress
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
Societal progress is characterized primarily as an improvement in the distribution of wellbeing; however, a small set of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select...
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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
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Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179654
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Relative income and happiness : an Experiment
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Houser, Daniel; Diaz, Lina - 2018
John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...
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Well-being inequality and reference groups : an agenda for new research
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2010 - Version March 3, 2010
consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …
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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...
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If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands : how do mothers and fathers really feel about child caregiving?
Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - 2013
women as evidenced by their average values for happiness, tiredness, and stress, their predicted values for the same three …
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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 … investigates the effect of job loss and becoming unemployed, another field of study focuses on the determinants of job satisfaction … evolving around employment conditions, self-employment, and potential public sector satisfaction premiums. A smaller part of …
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