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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being
Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - CESifo - 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/10005766299
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Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - CESifo - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of individual labor-market participation under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671705
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Inequality and Happiness : When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of individual labor-market participation under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136696
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Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity
Clark, Andrew; Knabe, Andreas; Raetzel, Steffen - 2021
The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … regional unemployment. However, the insecure employed and the poor-prospect unemployed are less negatively, or even positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316427
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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224868
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Partnership, Gender Roles and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - CESifo - 2012
how a person’s employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on … strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person’s partner reduces the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877791
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Dissatisfied with Life, but Having a Good Day: Time-Use and Well-Being of the Unemployed
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Schöb, Ronnie; … - CESifo - 2009
that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000373
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Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment and Future Unemployment Risk
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - CESifo - 2008
We reassess the “scarring” hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past … from past unemployment operates via worsened expectations of becoming unemployed in the future, and that it is future … insecurity that makes people unhappy. Hence, the terminology should be altered by one letter: past unemployment “scars” because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405975
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Dissatisfied with Life, but Having a Good Day : Time-Use and Well-Being of the Unemployed
Knabe, Andreas - 2009
that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763996
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Income Support, (Un-)Employment and Well-Being
Hetschko, Clemens - 2016
analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984507