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Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index. The state level …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471233

Blanchflower, David G. - 2008

paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely be … replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is higher … happiness that is unavailable on the U-index. For example, according to happiness research well-being across nations is lower …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271883

The Scots may be brave but they are neither healthy nor happy

Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2005

On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The self-assessed wellbeing of Scots is lower than that of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272699

Sundays are blue : aren't they? ; the day-of-the-week effect on subjective well-being and socio-economic status

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2009

This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day-of the-week effect. Overall, we find a 'blue' Sunday...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003918937

International evidence on well-being

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor) - 2008

this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely … be replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is … large body of data on happiness that is unavailable on the U-index. For example, according to happiness research well …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003679395

The impact of immigration on the well-being of natives

Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie; Giulietti, Corrado - 2012

This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to explore such nexus. Combining information from the German Socio-Economic Panel dataset with detailed local labour market characteristics for the...

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Positional concerns through the life cycle : evidence from subjective well-being data and survey experiments

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2012

This paper uses both subjective well-being and survey experimental data to analyze how people's positional concerns regarding income and goods vary with age. The subjective well-being approach is mainly based on German panel data for the period 1984-2009 (German Socio-Economic Panel), while the...

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Happy taxpayers? : income taxation and well-being

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2012

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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Home sweet home? : macroeconomic conditions in home countries and the well-being of migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit country-year...

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Home sweet home? : macroeconomic conditions in home countries and the well-being of migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014

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