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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

Income or Leisure? On the Hidden Benefits of (Un-)Employment

Chadi, Adrian - 2017

We study the usually assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions using comprehensive German panel data. We compare non-employed individuals after plant closures with employed people regarding both income and time use as well as their subjective perceptions of these two...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950287

The Long-Run Consequences of Chernobyl: Evidence on Subjective Well-Being, Mental Health and Welfare

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - CESifo - 2014

This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally...

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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - CESifo - 2009

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals’ well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...

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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War

Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - CESifo - 2010

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...

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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...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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Changing Identity : Retiring from Unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens - 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...

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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 …

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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 … scar 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 quot …

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