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Ponthière, Grégory - 2022

According to Epictetus, mental freedom and happiness can be achieved by distinguishing between, on the one hand, things that are upon our con- trol (our acts, opinions and desires), and, on the other hand, things that are not upon our control (our body, property, offi ces and reputation), and by...

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Back to Bentham, should we? : large-scale comparison of experienced versus decision utility

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier - 2017

utility', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific experiments, most often based on stated …

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Are long-lived persons utility monsters?

Ponthière, Grégory - 2022

Nozick's "utility monster" - a being who is more efficient than other persons at transforming resources into well … than a large number of other lives. In this article, I defend a purely marginalist view of the "utility monster", that is …, that the primary characteristic of a "utility monster" is a higher sensitivity, at the margin, of well-being to resources …

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Feeling richer and happier? : self-perceived economic welfare and life satisfaction : evidence of "Easterlin paradox" from Russian longitudinal data

Jin, Olivia S.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2020

Do you feel happier when you think you are richer? How does the perception of your own economic welfare affect your life satisfaction? This study examines subjective economic welfare and life satisfaction using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey covering years 1994 through 2018. The study...

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Intergenerational occupational mobility in Latin American economies : an empirical approach

Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco; Yavuz, Hasan … - 2020

Identifying the determinants of intergenerational mobility is an important aim in the development literature. In this article, intergenerational transmission is examined for 6 neglected Latin American Economies (Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Puerto Rico). We use a multinomial...

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Exchange rate, remittances and expenditure of foreign-born households : evidence from Australia

Hasan, Syed; Ratna, Nazmun; Shakur, Shamim - 2019

We examined the impact of the depreciation of the Australian dollar (AU$) during 2013-2015 on the expenditure of households with foreign-born members (HFBMs) in Australia. Employing the difference-in-differences method and 2013-2015 Nielson Homescan Panel Survey data, we found that HFBMs spent...

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Just another cog in the machine? : a worker-level view of robotization and tasks

Nikolova, Milena; Lepinteur, Anthony; Cnossen, Femke - 2023

Using survey data from 20 European countries, we construct novel worker-level indices of routine, abstract, social, and physical tasks across 20 European countries, which we combine with industry-level robotization exposure. Our conceptual framework builds on the insight that robotization...

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Work meaningfulness and effort

Cnossen, Femke; Nikolova, Milena - 2024

Self-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at...

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Robots, meaning, and self-determination

Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke; Nikolaev, Boris - 2022

We are the first to examine the impact of robotization on work meaningfulness and autonomy, competence, and relatedness, which are key for motivation and human flourishing at work. Using worker-level data from 13 industries in 20 European countries and OLS and instrumental variables estimations,...

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What makes work meaningful and why economists should care about it

Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke - 2020

We demonstrate why meaningful work, i.e. job-related activities that individuals view as purposeful and worthwhile, matters to labour economists. Building on self-determination theory, which specifies the roles of autonomy, competence, and relatedness as preconditions for motivation, we are the...

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