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Hetschko, Clemens - 2014

German panel data is used to show that the decrease in life satisfaction caused by an increase in the probability of losing work is higher when self-employed than when paid employed. Further estimations reveal that becoming unemployed reduces self-employed workers ́satisfaction considerably...

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Looking back in anger? : retirement and unemployment scarring

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2014

Previous studies find that past unemployment reduces life satisfaction even after reemployment for non-monetary reasons (unemployment scarring). It is not clear, however, whether this scarring is only caused by employment-related factors, such as worsened working conditions, or increased future...

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You owe me

Malmendier, Ulrike; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2017

In business and politics, gifts are often aimed at influencing the recipient at the expense of third parties. In an experimental study, which removes informational and incentive confounds, subjects strongly respond to small gifts even though they understand the gift giver’s intention. Our...

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Reforming an institutional culture of corruption : a model of motivated agents and collective reputation

Valasek, Justin - 2015

Recent empirical studies suggest that poor public sector performance in developing nations is due in part to the difficultly of selecting workers whose motivation is aligned with the mission of the institution -- in direct contrast to evidence from developed nations, public sector workers tend...

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Changing identity : retiring from unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 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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Income, happiness, and the disutility of labor

Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2009

We reexamine the claim that the effect of income on subjective well-being suffers from a systematic downward bias if one ignores that higher income is typically associated with more work effort. We analyze this claim using German panel data, controlling for individual unobserved heterogeneity,...

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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; … - 2009

We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day, and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are...

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Home alone : widows' well-being and time

Adena, Maja; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; … - 2021

Losing a partner is a life-changing experience. We draw on numerous datasets to examine differences between widowed and partnered older women and to provide a comprehensive picture of well-being in widowhood. Most importantly, our analysis accounts for time use in widowhood, an aspect which has...

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Home alone : widows' well-being and time

Adena, Maja; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; … - 2023

Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE, 2004-17) and time diaries from Poland (2013), the U.S. (2006-16), the U.K. (2014-15) and France (2009-10), we examine differences between widowed and partnered older women in well-being and its development in...

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Anti-corruption campaign in China : an empirical investigation

Yang, Li; Milanović, Branko; Lin, Yaoqi - 2023

database of officials who have been found guilty of corruption in China in the period 2012-21 with their personal … characteristics and the amount of embezzled funds. We use it to investigate the correlates of corruption, estimate the effects of … corruption on inequality, and find the expected increase in officials’ income due to corruption and the gain in income …

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