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The social costs of unemployment : accounting for unemployment duration
Ochsen, Carsten; Welsch, Heinz - 2006
The social costs of unemployment, in terms of unemployment's impact on European citizens' life satisfaction, relate … reducing the number of people unemployed at any point in time. -- unemployment ; unemployment duration ; life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883982
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Labor market institutions : curse or blessing?
Ochsen, Carsten; Welsch, Heinz - 2006
satisfaction of European citizens is affected by employment protection and the level and duration of unemployment benefit payments …-benefit analysis ; life satisfaction ; happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883987
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Measuring renewable energy externalities : evidence from subjective well-being data
Möllendorff, Charlotte von; Welsch, Heinz - 2015
Electricity from renewable sources avoids disadvantages of conventional power generation but often meets with local resistance due to visual, acoustic, and odor nuisance. We use representative panel data on the subjective well-being of 46,678 individuals in Germany, 1994 - 2012, for identifying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305328
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Well-being effects of a major negative externality : the case of Fukushima
Rehdanz, Katrin; Welsch, Heinz; Narita, Daiju; Okubo, … - 2013
Following a major earthquake off the Pacific coast of Japan, a tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three reactors in Fukushima, causing a major nuclear accident on 11 March 2011. Based on a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach we use panel data for 5,979 individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771210
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Income comparisons, income formation, and subjective well-being : new evidence on envy versus signaling
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2013
Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307,465 observations for subjective well-being and its covariates from Germany, 1990-2009, to study whether the nature of income comparison has changed in the process of economic development, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747833
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Income comparison, income formation, and subjective well-being : new evidence on envy versus signaling
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2013
Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307,465 observations for subjective well-being and its covariates from Germany, 1990 - 2009, to study whether the nature of income comparison has changed in the process of economic development,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733418
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Electricity supply preferences in Europe : evidence from subjective well-being data
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2013
We use survey data for 139,517 individuals in 26 European Countries, 2002 - 2011, to estimate the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) and production shares of various types of electricity generation. The estimated relationships are taken to represent preference relationships over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010127210
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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016
Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people's SWB is negatively correlated with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556229
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Measuring renewable energy : evidence from subjective well-being data
Möllendorff, Charlotte von; Welsch, Heinz - 2014
Electricity from renewable sources avoids the disadvantages of conventional power generation (air pollution, greenhouse gases, nuclear risk) but often meets with local resistance due to visual, acoustic, and odor nuisance. We use representative panel data on the subjective well-being of 36,475...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466478
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Measuring nuclear power plant externalities using life satisfaction data : a spatial analysis for Switzerland
Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2015
estimate the relationship between Swiss citizens' life satisfaction (understood as a proxy of utility) and the distance of … their place of residence from the nearest nuclear power plant. Controlling for a rich set of life satisfaction factors, we … find a statistically and economically significant satisfaction-distance gradient, whose monetary value amounts to CHF 291 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470383