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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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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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that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher …
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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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