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Beyond GDP and back : what is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?

New, Sonja C. de; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

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How job changes affect people's lives : evidence from subjective well-being data

Chadi, Adrian; Hetschkeo, Clemens - 2015

For representative German panel data, we document that voluntary job switching is associated with higher levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas forced job changes do not affect life satisfaction clearly. Using plant closures as an exogenous trigger of switching to a new...

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Dissatisfied with life or with being interviewed? : happiness and motivation to participate in a survey

Chadi, Adrian - 2014

Information on the number of interviewer contacts allows insights into how people's responses to questions on happiness … happiness. Analyses of responses by future non-respondents substantiate this finding and shed light on a key question for …

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Life satisfaction and job insecurity : evidence from Albania

Drishti, Elvisa; Carmichael, Fiona - 2022

satisfaction, but also, all-round happiness and satisfaction with life. Using nationally representative cross-sectional data, this … satisfaction, well-being and happiness are increasingly considered appropriate indicators of social progress and the ultimate goal …

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Do you really want to share everything? : the wellbeing of work-linked couples

Hennecke, Juliane; Hetschko, Clemens - 2021

Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the...

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Happiness, domains of life satisfaction, perceptions, and valuation differences across genders

Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani; Farrington, Stephen - 2021

Happiness is strongly associated with goal attainment, productivity, mental health and suicidal risk. This paper … greatest impact on happiness of men and women. The findings suggest that relative perceptions have a large statistically …'s happiness is more valued by female respondents. Satisfaction with household compared to personal income has a larger effect on …

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The emotional timeline of unemployment : anticipation, reaction, and adaption

Scheve, Christian von; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013

Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented...

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Self-employment and subjective well-being

Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - 2021

Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...

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Self-selection and subjective well-being : copula models with an application to public and private sector work

Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2008

We discuss a new approach to specifying and estimating ordered probit models with endogenous switching, or with binary endogenous regressor, based on copula functions. These models provide a framework of analysis for self-selection in economic well-being equations, where assigment of regressors...

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Income or leisure? : on the hidden benefits of (un-)employment

Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2017 - This version: August 8, 2017

We study the usually assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions using comprehensive German panel data. We compare non-employed individuals after plant closures with employed people regarding both income and time use as well as their subjective perceptions of these two...

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