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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2008
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739114
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Poverty and Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Germany
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - HAL - 2013
We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use panel data on 42,500 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2010 to uncover four empirical relationships. First, life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739011
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Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data
Clark, Andrew E.; D'ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - HAL - 2014
We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 45,800 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2011 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739092
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L'indice de développement humain : une évaluation rétrospective pour La Réunion (1985-2005)
Goujon, Michaël - HAL - 2011
between La Réunion and France is persistent in the three dimensions of the HDI: health, education and even more in the … monetary income dimension. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793764
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Work, jobs and well-being across the Millennium
Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2009
This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738723
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Unemployment as a social norm in Germany
Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - HAL - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738931
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A note on unhappiness and unemployment duration
Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2006
Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well …-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is … used to shed light on this issue; these data allow us to distinguish habituation to unemployment from sample selection. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739066
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Deliver us from evil: religion as insurance
Clark, Andrew E.; Lelkes, Orsolya - HAL - 2005
less psychological harm from unemployment than do the non-religious; equally both Catholics and Protestants are less hurt … results do not seem to come about from the endogeneity of religion. These patterns in subjective well-being correspond to data … different economic and social systems: consistent with this, unemployment replacement rates across Europe are lower in more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739093
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Getting back into work: What helps and what hinders?
Bozionelos, Nikos; Miao, Rentao - HAL - 2014
of their actual health), and procrastination tendencies, which are especially likely with tasks that are aversive (e …-perceptions of one's health condition and procrastination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898626
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Heterogeneity matters: labour productivity differentiated by age and skills
Roger, Muriel; Wasmer, Malgorzata - HAL - 2009
This study aims at evaluating the actual profile of marginal productivity across the age groups within the workforce. As age-productivity profile might differ between occupations, we differentiate the workforce simultaneously by skills (low-skilled, high-skilled) and by age (young, middle-aged,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008866181