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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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study the effect of grandparents looking after grandchildren on quality of life and life satisfaction of grandparents. We … to grandfathers. The favorable effect on life satisfaction is primarily directly attributable to caring for grandchildren …
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Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective well-being - life satisfaction and emotional well-being - separately to … obtain a more comprehensive view of the subjective impact of workfare jobs. Our results show that the life satisfaction of …
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satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion … interacts negatively with this effect in life satisfaction. Analysing time-use data and well-being indicators for various areas … of life, we find evidence that involuntary job mobility turns out to be harmful for satisfaction with family life. By …
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We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include models accounting for several confounders, regional and...
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In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …
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Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive … 2020 in Germany, when schools and day care centers were closed but while other measures had been relaxed and new infections …
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children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR … positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is driven by a … in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low socioeconomic …
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persons report substantially lower levels of life satisfaction than employed persons. When looking at specific types of …
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Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We …
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