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The New Stylized Facts about Income and Subjective Well-Being

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …

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Economic Satisfaction and Income Rank in Small Neighbourhoods

Clark, Andrew E.; Kristensen, Nicolai; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

neighbourhoods. This income information is matched to demographic and economic satisfaction variables from eight years of Danish ECHP … data. Panel regression analysis shows that, conditional on own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction … marginal effect in satisfaction terms. …

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Never the Same After the First Time: The Satisfaction of the Second-Generation Self-Employed

Clark, Andrew E.; Colombier, Nathalie; Masclet, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Previous empirical work has shown that the self-employed are generally more satisfied than salaried workers. This paper contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data from the ECHP and British data from the BHPS, we investigate the domains over which this...

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Evidence for a ‘Midlife Crisis’ in Great Apes Consistent with the U-Shape in Human Well-Being

Weiss, Alexander; King, James E.; Inoue-Murayama, Miho; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including happiness and mental health, well-being is high in youth, falls to a nadir in midlife, and rises again in...

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Boss Competence and Worker Well-being

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...

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Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium

Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

, subjective measures of job quality have mostly bounced back between 1997 and 2005. Overall job satisfaction is higher in 2005 …

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The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women’s declining relative well-being...

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Do People Become Healthier after Being Promoted?

Boyce, Christopher J.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper uses longitudinal data to explore whether greater job status makes a person healthier. Taking the evidence as a whole, promotees do not exhibit a health improvement after promotion. Instead the data suggest that workers with good health are more likely to be promoted. In the private...

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Your Money or Your Life: Changing Job Quality in OECD Countries

Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

OECD countries over the 1990s. Despite rising wages and falling hours, overall job satisfaction is either stable or …

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