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life satisfaction. Unemployed men were the least satisfied, followed by men who were not in the labour market, while men in … leadership positions reported the highest level of subjective life satisfaction. For women, no statistically significant … satisfaction, compared with women in other labour-market statuses. Our results lend evidence to the contention that men can "have …
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The study examines the effects of work orientations and work-leisure choices alongside the effect of genes or personality traits on subjective well-being (SWB). The former effects are assumed to be mediated by the match between women's preferred and actual number of working hours indicating...
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To examine the influence of working hours on employees' satisfaction, this article uses a large, representative set of … decreased satisfaction. Rather, increasing working hours and overtime have positive effects on life and job satisfaction …, whereas the desire to reduce working hours has a negative impact on satisfaction. In 2009, nearly 60% of employees wanted to …
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This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …
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groupsare most detrimental to life satisfaction? The analysis is based on data from the 2008 and 2009 pretest modules of the …. The consequences of such comparisons for life satisfaction prove to be negative: the more importance an individual … attaches to income comparisons with reference groups, the lower his or her life satisfaction. Income relative to neighbors and …
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Despite political efforts, balancing work and family life is still challenging. This paper provides novel evidence on … more family-friendly workplaces. These changes over time allow us to identify causal effects of childcare support using a … satisfaction and job satisfaction. In particular mothers who worked limited hours before the introduction, possibly due to …
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satisfaction with four areas of life: income, work, family and leisure. In the process, we employ pooled OLS estimations and …Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially … the satisfaction differences between work-linked and non-work-linked partners. Using data from the German Socio …
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This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours through instrumental variables techniques. In particular, we exploit exogenous variation in working hours from statutory workweek regulations in the German public sector as an...
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In der Industrie findet ein kontinuierlicher Prozess der internen Tertiarisierung statt. Die Zahl der Angestellten ist inzwischen ebenso hoch wie die der Arbeiter. Der Frauenanteil unter den Angestellten stagniert allerdings. Das Niveau der prekären Beschäftigungsformen wie Befristungen,...
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Arbeitszeit zudem noch zu klären, (1) inwieweit die Aufforderung zur Verdienstanpassung überlesen oder sogar missverstanden wird … Arbeitszeit als Ankerpunkte gewählt werden. …
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