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To what extent are improvements in quality of life (material living levels, health, education, political and civil … sometimes, as in the case of happiness and life satisfaction, QoL indicators remain unchanged despite a doubling or more of real …
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the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the … Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …
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satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age … of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health …, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life …
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This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio … positive link between job satisfaction (and changes over time therein) and subjective health measures (and changes therein …); that is, employees with higher or improved job satisfaction levels feel healthier and are more satisfied with their health …
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Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are … consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same …
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and preferred hours, the so-called work hours constraints? How does this affect the productivity of workers, their health …, and overall life satisfaction? Labor supply and corresponding demand are fundamental to production. Labor economists know …
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the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the … ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and …
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Talented individuals are seen as drivers of long-term growth, but how do they realize their full potential? In this paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are substantially influenced by their education and personality traits. I identify a previously...
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We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and labor...
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