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Different versions of the Easterlin Paradox : new evidence for European countries

Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2018

Richer people are happier than poorer people, but when a country becomes richer over time, its people do not become happier. This seemingly contradictory pair of findings of Richard Easterlin has be-come famous as the Easterlin Paradox. However, it was met with counterevidence. To shed more...

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Explaining happiness trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

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The hidden value of adult informal care in Europe

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2024

The hidden value of adult informal care (IC) refers to the unaccounted value of informal care in overall costs of long-term care (LTC) estimates. This paper estimates the net wellbeing value of adult IC in Europe, drawing on a wellbeing-based methodology. We use an instrumental variable strategy...

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Who compares to whom? : the anatomy of income comparisons in Europe

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2009

they interact the most often. -- Income comparisons ; relative income ; reference groups ; happiness ; redistribution …

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The effects of education on spouses' satisfaction in Europe

García Mainar, Inmaculada; Molina, José Alberto; … - In: Applied economics 42 (2010) 28/30, pp. 3607-3618

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The social costs of unemployment : accounting for unemployment duration

Ochsen, Carsten; Welsch, Heinz - In: Applied economics 43 (2011) 25/27, pp. 3999-4005

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Axiomatic measurement of multidimensional well-being inequality : some distributional questions

Croci Angelini, Elisabetta; Michelangeli, Alessandra - In: The journal of socio-economics 41 (2012) 5, pp. 548-557

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Job mismatches and labour market outcomes : panel evidence on australian university graduates

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Leary, Nigel - 2010

The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job...

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Happiness in Europe : cross-country differences in the determinants of subjective well-being

Pedersen, Peder J.; Schmidt, Torben Dall - 2009

The purpose in the present paper is to use individual panel data in the European Community Household Panel to analyse 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...

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Happiness in Europe : cross-country differences in the determinants of satisfaction with main activity

Pedersen, Peder J.; Schmidt, Torben Dall - In: The journal of socio-economics 40 (2011) 5, pp. 480-489

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