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Perceived income inequality and subjective social status in Europe

Hajdu, Gábor - 2021

This paper analyzes how perceived income inequality is associated with subjective well-being. Using four waves of the … "Social Inequality" module of the International Social Survey Programme, I show that the higher the level of perceived income … inequality is, the lower the individual's perception of her social standing, even if objective income inequality and preferences …

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Unemployment and subjective well-being

Suppa, Nicolai - 2021

This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical evidence as obtained from popular panel data sets....

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Weather, psychological wellbeing and mobility during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

Burdett, Ashley; Davillas, Apostolos; Etheridge, Ben - 2021

Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) and Google COVID-19 Mobility Reports we find evidence of reduced park mobility during the initial period …, while we find systematic links between park mobility and weather over the same period. Our results highlight the importance …

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Family matters: involuntary parental unemployment during childhood and subjective wellbeing later in life

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N. - 2018

We are the first to examine how parental unemployment experienced during early-, mid- and late-childhood affects adult life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and experienced during early (0-5 years) and late (11-15...

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The economics of walking about and predicting unemployment

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2021

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries - Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; Czechia; Denmark; Estonia;...

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Happiness, work, and identity

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2021

This chapter introduces identity utility to the study of (un)employment and (un)happiness. The concept is described in terms of an augmented utility function, the implications of which are assessed in light of the empirical literature on unemployment and well-being. Studies on unemployed...

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The well-being age U-shape effect in Germany is not flat

Blanchflower, David G.; Piper, Alan T. - 2021

Kassenboehmer and DeNew (2012) claim that there is no well-being age U-shape effect for Germany, when controlling for fixed effects and respondent experience and interviewer characteristics in the German Socio-Economic Panel, 1994-2006. We re-estimate with a longer run of years and restrict the...

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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022

Measuring the intergenerational mobility of welfare provides key inputs for policies, but very few studies examine … intergenerational mobility of subjective well-being (SWB), particularly in a poorer, transitional country context. We make new … traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …

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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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Effects of mandatory military service on wages and other socioeconomic outcomes

Puhani, Patrick A.; Sterrenberg, Margret K. - 2021

In this paper, we estimate the effects of mandatory military service by exploiting the post-cold war decrease in the need for soldiers causing a substantial number of potential conscripts not to be drafted into the German military. Specifically, using previously unavailable information on degree...

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