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We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …
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Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
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being in a union workplace and having union co-workers affect the job satisfaction of non-union employees negatively. No …
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demonstrate the role of working conditions in the following three domains: overall life-satisfaction; satisfaction with one's job …; and satisfaction with the combination of family and work. The paper also contributes to the ongoing debate on web survey …
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Using data from the 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines how subjective well-being (SWB) varies between working at home and working in the workplace among wage/salary workers. Both OLS and individual fixed-effects models are employed for...
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between the average level of job satisfaction at the workplace and workplace performance. This finding is present in both …
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The paper examines the link between workplace disability (WD) and job satisfaction (JS) in Britain using linked data …
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Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
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Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...
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While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents' quality of … of international tourist arrivals on the subjective well-being – happiness and life satisfaction – of residents in … results suggest that tourist arrivals reduce residents' life satisfaction. This negative relationship tends to be more …
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