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Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2021

It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of … effects of unemployment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2004, I find that social capital is an important … predictor of well-being levels, but there is no evidence that it moderates the effect of unemployment on well-being. The well …

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Unhappiness and Job Finding

Gielen, Anne C. - 2012

It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there is indeed such a puzzle. First,...

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You CanﾒT Be Happier than Your Wife : Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Guven, Cahit - 2009

This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...

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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income : Perceptions and Evidence

Mayraz, Guy - 2009

Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...

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What Women Want (Their Men to Do) : Housework and Satisfaction in Australian Households

Foster, Gigi - 2017

The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework allocation decisions and evaluations of their lot. Using...

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Younger and Dissatisfied? Relative Age and Life-Satisfaction in Adolescence

Fumarco, Luca - 2018

This is the first study to investigate whether age gaps between classmates (that is, relative age) affect life-satisfaction gaps in adolescence. To this end, we analyse data from the multi-country Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) survey. We find evidence that relative age...

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Government Transfers, Work and Wellbeing : Evidence from the Russian Old-Age Pension

Grogan, Louise - 2018

This paper examines the impacts of a large and anticipated government transfer, the Russian old-age pension, on labor supply, home production and subjective wellbeing. The discontinuity in eligibility at pension age is exploited for inference. The 2006-2011 Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey...

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Alternative Values-Based 'Recipes' for Life Satisfaction : German Results with an Australian Replication

Headey, Bruce - 2018

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate...

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Relative Income and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Immigrants : The Impact of a Collectivistic Culture

Dumludag, Devrim - 2015

This study examines the effects of social comparison with a wide range of reference groups on the life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that deviate from the findings of recent studies and that...

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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and Their Welfare Effects

Senik, Claudia - 2021

This paper provides unheard direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect on subjective well-being. It also evaluates the relative importance of different types of benchmarks. Dynamic comparisons outweigh static ones. Internal benchmarks are more important than external reference...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316674

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