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Life satisfaction and self-employment: a matching approach

Binder, Martin; Coad, Alex - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 4, pp. 1009-1033

Despite lower incomes, the self-employed consistently report higher satisfaction with their jobs. But are self-employed individuals also happier, more satisfied with their lives as a whole? High job satisfaction might cause them to neglect other important domains of life, such that the...

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Happiness No Matter the Cost? An Examination on How Efficiently Individuals Reach Their Happiness Levels

Binder, Martin; Broekel, Tom - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 13 (2012) 4, pp. 621-645

Happiness measures, reflecting individuals’ well-being, have received increasing attention by policy makers. Policies … could target absolute happiness levels when aiming at increasing a society’s well-being. But given upper bounds of happiness … measures, as well as the possibilities of decreasing returns to happiness resources, we argue that an important measure of …

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Innovativeness and Subjective Well-Being

Binder, Martin - In: Social Indicators Research 111 (2013) 2, pp. 561-578

progressed to a point where measures of subjective well-being (or: happiness) can usefully be employed to assess the welfare …

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Volunteering, Happiness and Public Policy

Binder, Martin; Freytag, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

) data set to estimate the causal impact of volunteering on happiness. We take into account personality traits that could … jointly determine volunteering behaviour and happiness. We find that the causal impact of volunteering on happiness is …

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Measuring Well-being Across Europe: Description of the ESS Well-being Module and Preliminary Findings

Huppert, Felicia; Marks, Nic; Clark, Andrew; Siegrist, … - In: Social Indicators Research 91 (2009) 3, pp. 301-315

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"I'm afraid I have bad news for you…" Estimating the impact of different health impairments on subjective well-being

Binder, Martin; Coad, Alex - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2012

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Life satisfaction and self-employment: A matching approach

Binder, Martin; Coad, Alex - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2010

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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2013

Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well]being...

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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Subjective Well-Being and Income: Is there any Evidence of Satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2013

Many scholars have argued that once “basic needs” have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing...

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