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life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …, even the probability of returning from unemployment to employment can increase. Gender-specific differences are discussed. …
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. For both men and women those who enter from unemployment or inactivity are less successful in terms of income and the … employment status prior to entering self-employment. As performance measures we use income from self-employment, number of … employment status, we find that those who entered from unemployment or inactivity face a higher risk of returning to one of these …
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larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self …-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze the provision of benefits targeted at these risks using a calibrated …. This exercise suggests that extending the current US unemployment insurance scheme to the self-employed comes with a clear …
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persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …
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The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
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with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany … countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain … and Hungary), non-durable consumption expenditures also prove at least as important to happiness as income. Further …
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employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skilltraining programs …
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heterogeneity. Our model allows for four main social insurance programmes. In contrast to simpler models that attribute all income … stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …
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heterogeneity. Our model allows for four main social insurance programmes. In contrast to simpler models that attribute all income … stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …
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employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317937