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Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle?

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2007

We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this argument is that there are likely to be omitted cohort effects (earlier generations may have been born in, say, particularly good or bad times). First, using data on 500,000...

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Explaining well-being over the life cycle : a look at life transitions during young adulthood

Switek, Malgorzata - 2013

affect well-being, and to what degree can they account for the life satisfaction path followed during young adulthood? To … transitions undergone during each age interval are examined. Life satisfaction at ages 22 to 40 follows a slight inverse U … overall life satisfaction. Partnership formation, the school-to-work transition, and parenting younger children are all …

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Born to be mild? : Cohort effects don't (fully) explain why well-being is U-shaped in age

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2007

flatter for life satisfaction than for the GHQ measure of mental well-being. The pattern of the estimated cohort effects also …

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Pension policies, retirement and human capital depreciation in late adulthood

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2020

Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation and considerably less on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. Studying human capital depreciation over the life cycle has powerful economic consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data...

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A structural analysis of mental health and labor market trajectories

Jolivet, Grégory; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2020

We conduct a joint dynamic analysis of individual labor market and mental health outcomes. We allow for a two-way interaction between work and mental health. We model selection in and out of employment as well as between jobs on a labor market with search frictions, where we account for the...

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Public-sector compensation over the life cycle

Gomes, Pedro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2020

The size of the public sector in terms of employment and compensation has a strong life-cycle dimension. We establish a quantitative partial-equilibrium life-cycle model with incomplete markets, private and public sectors, and risk-averse workers, and use it to (i) calculate three dimensions of...

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Geographic mobility over the life-cycle

Díaz, Antonia; Jáñez, Álvaro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2023

When mobility between locations is frictional, a person's economic well-being is partially determined by her place of birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young people in Spain, and these frictions are particularly...

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Life-cycle worker flows and cross-country differences in aggregate employment

Créchet, Jonathan; Lalé, Etienne; Tarasonis, Linas - 2024

Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, the youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to aggregate employment differences across a large...

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Job mobility and assortative matching

Braunschweig, Luisa; Dauth, Wolfgang; Roth, Duncan - 2024

We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer-employee data covering the universe of German employees, we measure the degree of assortative matching as the correlation of worker and firm quality measures obtained from an AKM...

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The effects of compulsory schooling on health and hospitalization over the life cycle

Gehrsitz, Markus; Williams, Morgan C. - 2024

This paper examines the effects of education on health and hospitalization over the life cycle. Using administrative data, we leverage a 1972 compulsory schooling reform within the United Kingdom which produced a large increase in educational attainment among affected cohorts. Our regression...

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