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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390631
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? Evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and private sectors
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282761
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? Evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268746
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The Happiness Gains From Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market
Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2007
Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on subjective well-being it is possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390612
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The happiness gains from sorting and matching in the labor market
Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2006
Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267293