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Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium

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

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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...

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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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