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life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However … and life satisfaction. (2) Besides, the endogeneity research regarding life satisfaction should be expanded. Reduced form …
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By using longitudinal data the relation between satisfaction with life and unemployment is analyzed in this study. Data … the effects of voluntary and involuntary unemployment on life satisfaction. (2) Moreover, the intent is to answer the …
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity...
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correlation of unemployment and subjective life satisfaction. It is found that unemployed individuals do not only report … significantly lower concurrent satisfaction, but also recall reduced satisfaction from past unemployment well, and retrospectively … upgrade their past satisfaction scores. Therefore, the short-term negative effects of unemployment on individual life …
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High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …
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regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less … negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an …
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of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1 … data") in order to disentangle the interplay between individual, societal and regional determinants on individuals' health …
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The study examines the effects of work orientations and work-leisure choices alongside the effect of genes or personality traits on subjective well-being (SWB). The former effects are assumed to be mediated by the match between women's preferred and actual number of working hours indicating...
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marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment for … men. Men are somewhat more affected by labour market events (unemployment and layoffs) than are women, but in general the …
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disposition and the potential endogeneity of thoughts and life satisfaction. The reduction in life satisfaction experienced by … individuals who report being pessimistic is greater than that for well-known objective statuses like unemployment. Including … satisfaction is made up of objective and subjective factors and methods exist to account for their potential endogeneity to enhance …
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