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Boon or bane? : others' unemployment, well-being and job insecurity

Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2009

far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860394

Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2009

This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794111

A note on unhappiness and unemployment duration

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2006

panel results show little evidence of habituation to unemployment in Europe in the 1990's. …

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

Happiness, habits and high rank : comparisons in economic and social life

Clark, Andrew E. - 2011

The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408713

Your money or your life : changing job quality in OECD countries

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2005

outcomes) and the job outcomes themselves. Here both cross-section and panel data are used to examine changes in job quality in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002841018

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

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2007

-being and age. This paper uses fourteen waves of British panel data to distinguish between two potential explanations of this … shape: a pure life-cycle or aging effect, and a fixed cohort effect depending on year of birth. Panel analysis controlling …. -- Subjective well-being ; cohorts ; fixed effects ; panel data …

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Economic satisfaction and income rank in small neighbourhoods

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor); … - 2008

data. Panel regression analysis shows that, conditional on own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771943

Effort and comparison income : experimental and survey evidence

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor); Masclet, David (contributor) - 2006

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others' incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003333113

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

Winning big but feeling no better? : the effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health

Apouey, Bénédicte; Clark, Andrew E. - 2010

We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937887