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Local-Level Immigration and Life Satisfaction : The EU Enlargement Experience in England and Wales
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015
The 2004 European Union enlargement resulted in an unprecedented wave of 1.5 million workers relocating from Eastern Europe to the UK. We study how this migrant inflow affected life satisfaction of native residents in England and Wales. Combining the British Household Panel Survey with the Local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011148
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Moving to Despair? Migration and Well-Being in Pakistan
Chen, Joyce J. - 2017
Internal migration has the potential to substantially increase income, especially for the poor in developing countries, and yet migration rates remain low. We explore the role of psychic costs by evaluating the impacts of internal migration on a suite of well-being indicators using a unique,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952597
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The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration : Evidence from a Lottery
Gibson, John - 2015
We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is found to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012021
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The Effects of International Migration on the Well-Being of Native Populations in Europe
Betz, William - 2013
little is understood about how migrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being, of natives.This paper uses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082143
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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Stillman, Steven - 2012
expenditures. Impacts on subjective well-being are complex, with mental health improving but happiness declining, self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099692
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Inter-Ethnic Marriage and Partner Satisfaction
Sinning, Mathias - 2010
This paper investigates immigrant assortative mating and relationship satisfaction. Using a modified random effects ordered probit model, the paper demonstrates that spouses of mixed couples are significantly less satisfied with their partner than native-only and foreign-only couples
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136029
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Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Sinning, Mathias - 2021
This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316715
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The French Unhappiness Puzzle : The Cultural Dimension of Happiness
Senik, Claudia - 2011
This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of equivalent … affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to …-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for 80 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117611
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A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey - 2022
of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in the World Happiness Reports and apply Data Envelopment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242743
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Happy Moves? Assessing the Link between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015
the probability of reporting intentions to migrate. The findings of this paper raise concerns about possible 'happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023014