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so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career … the satisfaction differences between work-linked and non-work-linked partners. Using data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP, 2019), we estimate the effect of working in the same occupation and/or industry on life satisfaction as well as …
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This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day-of the-week effect. Overall, we find a 'blue' Sunday...
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. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental …
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asks respondents to rate their overall life satisfaction. Using individual-level SWB data allows us to control for several … having a significant positive effect on self-reported life-satisfaction. Implications for researchers and policymakers are …
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A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
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suggest that close to 90% of the respondents actually seek to maximize their SWB. The life satisfaction question appears the … best contender as the "maximand" in the contest, before the ladder‐of‐life question and felt happiness. Among the other …
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traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens' happiness, life satisfaction, and other …
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The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using … satisfaction is on average significantly lower in East than in West German federal states and that part of the raw East-West gap is …
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concentrations of ethnic minority populations. We also explore one consequence of coresidency, reported happiness. We find that … of happiness, we find again that socioeconomic and demographic conditions matter, as does ethnicity. Controlling all else …, coresidency increases the happiness of the elderly by about 28 percent. Moreover, the unobserved characteristics that drive …
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more about money, and were increasingly prone to debt. Thus helping people apparently hurt them. We discuss a behavioral …
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