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Does Working Longer Make People Healthier and Happier?
Calvo, Esteban - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
PURPOSE: This study addresses the impact of late-life paid work on physical and psychological well-being. METHODS: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged 59 to 69 who were working or not-working in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616686
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The Size and Composition of Government Spending in Europe and Its Impact on Well-Being
Hessami, Zohal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper analyses whether large governments in Europe reflect efficient responses to a changing social and economic environment (‘welfare economic view’) as opposed to wasteful spending (‘public choice view’). To this end, the effect of government size on subjective well-being is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592928
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Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence
Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596419
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Globalization's Winners and Losers - Evidence from Life Satisfaction Data, 1975 - 2000
Hessami, Zohal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper analyzes the effect of globalization on subjective well-being by using a dataset that combines micro- and macro-level variables for the EU-15 countries from 1975 to 2000. The estimations provide evidence that - in line with theoretical predictions - globalization has benefited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693561
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The Welfare Effects of Social Mobility
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The question whether a socially mobile society is conducive to subjective well-being (SWB) has rarely been investigated. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the SWB effects of intergenerational earnings mobility and equality in education at the societal level. Using socio-demographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061673
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The Welfare Effects of Social Mobility: An Analysis for OECD countries.
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The question whether a socially mobile society is conducive to subjective well-being (SWB) has rarely been investigated. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the SWB effects of intergenerational earnings mobility and equality in educational attainment at the societal level. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109561
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Do people care for a sustainable future? Evidence from happiness data.
Bartolini, Stefano; Sarracino, Francesco; Theis, Laurent - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
While the various streams of environmentalism agree in claiming that the current patterns of economic activity are unsustainable for natural resources, they disagree in answering the following question: who is the responsible? Two different answers have been provided: the people or the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114438
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Demografia, Occupazione e Produttività in Italia e nelle Regioni italiane [terza parte del progetto "Il presente e il futuro del Pay-Go in Italia, Europa e Us"]
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The circular interplay between demography-employment-productivity-PayGo is investigated for Italy and Italian geographical repartitions. Looking forward to the mid-long run, the paper offers simulations of the burden each effective worker and each active citizen will have to bear to finance via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112563
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Modern Populism in Greece
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil; Tsagarakis, Stelios; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Financial crisis has connected Europe with an obvious common pattern which consists the rapidly rise of protest parties that challenge the established political systems. The basic and new feature of these schemes is the intense war rhetoric against the European Union and the vehement rejection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196665
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Are women in the MENA region really that different from women in Europe? Globalization, conservative values and female labor market participation.
Fischer, Justina AV; Aydıner-Avşar, Nursel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This article aims to compare women in the MENA region with women in Europe as to how globalization affects their … labor market participation, mirroring the current development in the MENA countries. After the Cold War, in Western Europe … come in the MENA region. Eastern Europe appears distinct from the other two regions. In the MENA region, women respond to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264810