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Job Insecurity, Employability, and Health: An Analysis for Germany across Generations
Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099852
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Reference-Dependent Effects of Unemployment on Mental Well-Being
Grunow, Martina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being. We show … that the negative effect of unemployment on mental well-being depends on expectations about the future employment status … surrounding unemployment rate. We argue that expectations are a possible link between unemployment rates and the individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752457
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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Clark, Andrew E. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784010
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Endogeneity in the Relation between Poverty, Wealth and Life Satisfaction
Hajek, André - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
, even the probability of returning from unemployment to employment can increase. Gender-specific differences are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010717496