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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Social norms are usually neglected in economics because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to live off one’s own income and we show that this norm has important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703429
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Happiness and Work
Krause, Annabelle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959638
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700953
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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being
Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens’ approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that “women and men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822222
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015487
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Back to Baseline in Britain: Adaptation in the BHPS
Clark, Andrew E.; Georgellis, Yannis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
for unemployment. These findings are remarkably similar to those in previous work on German panel data. Equally, the time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279372
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Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
unemployment for men. In general, men are more affected by labour market events (unemployment and layoffs) than are women. Last, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703135
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Do Workers Really Benefit From Their Social Networks?
Fontaine, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566629
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Don't Worry, Be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment
Krause, Annabelle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959814
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Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being
Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of … effects of unemployment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2004, I find that social capital is an important … predictor of well-being levels, but there is no evidence that it moderates the effect of unemployment on well-being. The well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566551