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Who compares to whom? : the anatomy of income comparisons in Europe

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2009

This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898065

A note on unhappiness and unemployment duration

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2006

Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is used to shed light on this issue; these data...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003490824

Heterogeneity in reported well-being : evidence from twelve European countries

Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent class techniques applied to panel data from twelve European countries. Introducing both intercept and slope heterogeneity into this relationship, we strongly reject the hypothesis that individuals transform...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452375

Occupational status and life satisfaction in the UK : the miserable middle?

Georgellis, Yannis; Clark, Andrew E.; Apergis, Emmanuel; … - 2022

We use British panel data to explore the link between occupational status and life satisfaction. We find puzzling evidence, for men, of a U-shaped relationship in cross-section data: employees in medium-status occupations report lower life satisfaction scores than that of employees in either...

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Who got the brexit blues? : using a quasi-experiment to show the effect of brexit on subjective wellbeing in the uk

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Plagnol, Anke C.; Frijters, Paul; … - 2017

wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a … preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied with life pre-referendum, with both misery (life satisfaction below … respondents who reported a preference for leaving the EU. However, adaptation to the Brexit result appears to be complete three …

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Loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from five European countries

Lepinteur, Anthony; Rebechi, Alessio; Clark, Andrew E.; … - 2024

We use quarterly panel data from the COME-HERE survey covering five European countries to analyse three facets of the experience of loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, in terms of prevalence, loneliness peaked in April 2020, followed by a U-shape pattern in the rest of 2020, and then...

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Job security and job protection

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor); … - 2005

We construct indicators of the perception of job security for various types of jobs in 12 European countries using individual data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). We then consider the relation between reported job security and OECD summary measures of Employment Protection...

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