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We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality … traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and … a simple model based on Prospect Theory, where we assume that: (i) life satisfaction is dependent on the gap between …
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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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nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German …-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to …
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This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax...
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satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower …
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events, tend to return to some baseline level of wellbeing? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the … satisfaction levels are broadly equally affected by labour market and life events …
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prominent events – is also to discover for life satisfaction before and after retirement in Germany …Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society … concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction …
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In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …
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