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The subjective well-being of workfare participants : insights from a day reconstruction survey
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280847
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How job changes affect people's lives : evidence from subjective well-being data
Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482693
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Do you really want to share everything? : the wellbeing of work-linked couples
Hennecke, Juliane; Hetschko, Clemens - 2021
the satisfaction differences between work-linked and non-work-linked partners. Using data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP, 2019), we estimate the effect of working in the same occupation and/or industry on life satisfaction as well as … satisfaction with four areas of life: income, work, family and leisure. In the process, we employ pooled OLS estimations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499522
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The long-run consequences of Chernobyl : evidence on subjective well-being, mental health and welfare
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2014
health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370275
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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698819
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Health and wellbeing spillovers of a partner's cancer diagnosis
Angelini, Viola; Costa-Font, Joan - 2023
Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network …. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014292854
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Social contacts, unemployment, and experienced well-being : evidence from tim-use data
Thi Truong An Hoang; Knabe, Andreas - 2022
We use the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/15 to analyze how differences in the frequency and intensity of social contacts contribute to the gap in experienced well-being between employed and unemployed persons. We observe that people generally enjoy being with others more than being alone. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380473
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The long-term impact of paid parental leave on maternal health and subjective well-being
Heisig, Katharina - 2023
-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with … physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228411
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The cost of well-being
Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015
Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305432
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A happy way to grow old? : grandparent caregiving, quality of life and life satisfaction
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi - 2019
Utilizing the 2015 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) that covers 7045 households, we … study the effect of grandparents looking after grandchildren on quality of life and life satisfaction of grandparents. We … looked after. The favorable effects on mental health seem limited to grandparents living in rural areas and apply especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024588