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Krause, Annabelle - 2014

The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … the literature investigates potential driving effects of happiness on labor market outcomes. This article will give an …

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Subjective well-being in China, 2005-2010 : the role of relative income, gender and location

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Kok Kheng - 2016

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …

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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 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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Boon or bane? : others' unemployment, well-being and job insecurity

Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2009

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...

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A note on unhappiness and unemployment duration

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 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...

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Unemployment, social capital, and subjective well-being

Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2006

It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of individuals. In this paper, I explore whether and to what extent people with more social capital are sheltered from the harmful effects of unemployment. Using data from the German...

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Life satisfaction in urban China : components and determinants

Song, Lina (contributor); Appleton, Simon (contributor) - 2008

insecurity - does not appear to impact on life satisfaction. -- Life satisfaction ; happiness ; economic growth ; unemployment …

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Relative income, redistribution and well-being

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A. - 2010

income ; redistribution ; basic income ; unemployment benefits ; happiness ; well-being …

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Unhappiness and job finding

Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2012

happiness, which might explain why at least some workers need to be activated. In addition to that, we find that even though … unemployed who experience a drop in happiness search more actively for a job, it does not speed up their job finding. Apparently … unhappy and the need for activation policies. -- happiness ; unemployment duration …

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The role of social work norms in job searching and subjective well-being

Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2003 - revised December 2003

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 work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...

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