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Acculturation Identity and Labor Market Outcomes
Nekby, Lena; Rödin, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the consequences of identity for subsequent labor market outcomes. Unique for this study is that identity is defined according to a two-dimensional acculturation framework based on both...
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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
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/10009294836
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A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration
Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
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