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The application of the capability approach to high-income OECD countries : a preliminary survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - 2011
The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011367
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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the nonpecuniary life satisfaction … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515336
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Friday the 13th : the empirics of bad luck
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2014
We use the UK Labor Force survey to investigate whether the socio-economic outcomes of people born on the 13th day of the month, and of those born on Friday the 13th, differ from the outcomes of people born on more auspicious days. In many European countries, including the UK, such days are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418005
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016
We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most to the 1970s, our measure goes back at least 200...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476047
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COVID-19 and mental health deterioration among BAME groups in the UK
Proto, Eugenio; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020
We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and compare pre- (2017-2019) and post-COVID19 data (April 2020) for the same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health among ethnic groups in the UK. We confirm the previously documented average deterioration in mental health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252463
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Time use, unemployment, and well-being : an empirical analysis using British time-use data
Hoang, Thi Truong An; Knabe, Andreas - 2019
persons report substantially lower levels of life satisfaction than employed persons. When looking at specific types of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992330
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Is a sorrow shared a sorrow doubled? : parental unemployment and the life satisfaction of adolescent children
Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Lücke, Christine - 2023
children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431287
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Assessing the maintenance of savings sufficiency over the first decade of retirement
Haveman, Robert H.; Holden, Karen C.; Wolfe, Barbara L.; … - 2005
The adequacy of retirement savings is central to the U.S. debate over the effects of Social Security reform and pension changes that would place greater responsibility on individuals for accumulation of retirement resources. We contribute to this discussion by examining the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003202784
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Satisfaction with amenities and taste for revolt in the Middle East
Fereidouni, Hassan Gholipour; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2023
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between individuals' satisfaction with amenities and … infrastructure) and applying Probit regressions, our results show that satisfaction with amenities and environmental quality … more pronounced in urban areas, particularly in large cities. We also find that individuals' satisfaction with amenities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014295085
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Scarring or scaring? : the psychological impact of past unemployment and future unemployment risk
Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Rätzel, Steffen (contributor) - 2008
reduces a person's current life satisfaction even after the person has become reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar … it "scaresʺ. -- Unemployment ; scarring ; happiness ; life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790758