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associated with job satisfaction, even though the self-employed often earn less than their employed peers, work longer hours and … enjoy higher overall life satisfaction, which is due to heterogeneity of types of self-employment, as well as motivational …
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satisfaction, but also, all-round happiness and satisfaction with life. Using nationally representative cross-sectional data, this … study provides evidence of the negative effect of perceived job insecurity on life satisfaction in post-communist Albania …: being in a blue-collar job is associated with lower overall life satisfaction, but if this job is perceived as insecure, the …
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We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i …
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a lack of a structure in daily life. Unlike life satisfaction, unemployment leaves affective well-being mostly … importance of the social norms to work and be self-reliant for the life satisfaction of the unemployed, as well as by studies … showing the positive life satisfaction effect of retirement on unemployed workers. Based on this strong evidence for identity …
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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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decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … satisfaction with own economic conditions, work contract, job, pay, and career. Some evidence indicates that despite little … differences between urban and rural areas with life satisfaction, rural areas exhibit a stronger lack of adaptation for subjective …
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For trans people (i.e. people whose gender is not the same as the sex they were assigned at birth) evidence suggests that transitioning (i.e. the steps a trans person may take to live in the gender with which they identify) positively affects positivity towards life, extraversion, ability to...
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higher job satisfaction than comparable non-members. This expectation is not consistent with empirical findings. The evidence … sometimes indicates that union members have lower job satisfaction, but overall suggests the absence of a robust correlation … satisfaction. It distinguishes settings in which a trade union provides public goods from those in which it restricts the provision …
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We propose a measure of well-being efficiency to assess countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in...
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Social welfare payments (SWP) were designed with policy priority to transfer revenue to vulnerable groups, thereby addressing poverty and inequality. Previous studies have shown that SWPs alleviate poverty, but investigating their effect on well-being is sparse. We investigate the relationship...
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