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What women want (their men to do) : housework and satisfaction in Australian households
Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2017
The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework allocation decisions and evaluations of their lot. Using...
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Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?
Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018
Economists increasingly accept that social norms have powerful effects on human behavior and outcomes. In recent history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in...
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Happiness and work
Krause, Annabelle - 2014
The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...
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You'll never walk alone : unemployment, social networks and leisure activities
Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
We analyse how unemployment affects individuals' social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction … unemployment. …
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Unhappiness and job finding
Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2012
unhappy and the need for activation policies. -- happiness ; unemployment duration …
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Don't worry, be happy? : happiness and reemployment
Krause, Annabelle - 2012
also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a … optimal level of happiness, which is not necessarily the highest. -- unemployment ; job search ; happiness ; reemployment …
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Conspicuous work : peer working time, labour supply and happiness for male workers
Collewet, Marion; Grip, Andries de; Koning, Jaap de - 2015
This paper uncovers 'conspicuous work' as a new form of status seeking that can explain social interactions in labour supply. We analyse how peer working time relates to both labour supply and happiness for Dutch male workers. Using a unique measure of peer weekly working time, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513326
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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …
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The causes and consequences of early-adult unemployment : evidence from cohort data
Clark, Andrew E.; Lepinteur, Anthony - 2019
unemployment from the time they left school up to age 30. We show that this experience is negatively correlated with the life … satisfaction that the individual reports at age 30, so that past unemployment scars. We also identify the childhood circumstances … and family background that predict this adult unemployment experience. Educational achievement and good behaviour at age …
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Relative income and life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants : the impact of a collectivistic culture
Dumludag, Devrim; Gokdemir, Ozge; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2015
This study examines the effects of social comparison with a wide range of reference groups on the life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that deviate from the findings of recent studies and that...
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