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Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives

Bjorklund, Anders - 2010

This paper examines the evolution of economic inequality in Sweden before, during and after the major macro-economic recession in the early 1990s. Earnings and income inequality increased after the downturn, but government safety net programs buttressed disposable income for those with low...

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Happiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks

Di Tella, Rafael - 2010

We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the unemployment rate and the inflation rate. Our preferred interpretation is that this shows that emotions are affected by macroeconomic fluctuations. Contentment is, at a minimum, one of the...

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Dissatisfied with Life, but Having a Good Day : Time-Use and Well-Being of the Unemployed

Knabe, Andreas - 2009

We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day, and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are...

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Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment and Future Unemployment Risk

Knabe, Andreas - 2008

We reassess the quot;scarringquot; hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person's current life satisfaction even after the person has become reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened...

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Urban Inequality

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014

What impact does inequality have on metropolitan areas? Crime rates are higher in places with more inequality, and people in unequal cities are more likely to say that they are unhappy. There is also a negative association between local inequality and the growth of both income and population,...

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The Well-Being of the Overemployed and the Underemployed and the Rise in Depression in the UK

Bell, David N.F. - 2018

of five main measures of well-being: happiness; life satisfaction; whether life is worthwhile; anxiety and depression … in 2010 that is not matched by declines in happiness measures (positive affect). The fear of unemployment obtained from …

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Income Support, (Un-)Employment and Well-Being

Hetschko, Clemens - 2016

Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the non-pecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...

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Inequality of Subjective Well-Being as a Comprehensive Measure of Inequality

Goff, Leonard - 2016

The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of … inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies … among individuals. Its correlation with both happiness levels and social trust is substantially stronger than the …

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Recessions, Reeling Markets, and Retiree Well-Being

Coile, Courtney - 2010

This paper examines the impact of late-career investment returns and job loss on subsequent retiree well-being. Specifically, we explore whether there is a link between the income of retirees aged 70 to 79 and the stock market and labor market conditions that existed around the time of their...

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Direct Evidence for Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being Across Reference Groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...

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