Showing 1 - 10 of 20
abnormally low levels of life satisfaction. Using data from the World Values Survey and other sources, we study various … explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that the disparity in life satisfaction between residents of transition and non … the aged population explain a great deal of the difference in life satisfaction between transition countries and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667036
-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468702
satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123569
Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001061
We investigate how individual well-being is affected by unemployment. Analysing panel data on life satisfaction, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656391
Emigration of labour and its subsequent repatriation can best be understood as phases of an intertemporal exchange process, of a relatively abundant factor, namely unskilled labour, for a relatively scarce factor, namely capital. This capital flow initially consists of financial capital, that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662201
Using a human-capital-based growth model, we show the essential role of labour mobility and cross-country tax harmonization in equalizing income levels of countries that start off from different initial income positions. Knowledge spillovers cum labour mobility are the driving forces behind the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666441
In Spring 1991, we argued that the centrepiece of German policy towards unification should be a universal, temporary wage subsidy in Eastern Germany and the elimination of all other subsidies. Subsequent events have strengthened the analytical case for and practical importance of this policy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666856
We relate the phenomena of sluggish interregional labour reallocation and in-kind compensation in Russia to 'attachment' strategies of firms: Paying wages in non-monetary forms makes it hard for workers to raise the cash needed for quitting their region in order to find better jobs in more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788929
A model of the labour market under firing restrictions and endogenous quits is constructed. It is shown that in the spirit of Blanchard and Summers (1988), the model can generate multiple equilibria, with a low-quits/high-unemployment equilibrium coexisting with a high-quits/low-unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791589