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An empirical note on imitative obesity and a puzzling result
Braakmann, Nils - 2010
becoming slimmer as a result of preferences for deviant behaviour. Life satisfaction regressions show a positive effect for BMI … relative to the county average. Paradoxically, BMI relative to the cell average seems to have no effect on life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286602
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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-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sectorspecific institutional differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390631
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Income Comparisons among Neighbours and Life Satisfaction in East and West Germany
Knies, Gundi - 2010
there is a divide between East and West Germany, but also that neighbours may not be a relevant comparison group in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600940
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274814
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Subjective well-being and the duration of aggregate unemployment in Europe
Ochsen, Carsten - 2008
This study examines whether the distribution of aggregate unemployment by duration affects individual well-being. Two hypotheses are provided to explain how the shares of short-term (up to 3 months) and long-term (more than 1 year) unemployed people could affect the well-being of the employed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319272
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Work to live or live to work? Unemployment, happiness, and culture
Krause, Annabelle - 2011
significantly negative effect on life satisfaction in Switzerland. I furthermore present evidence which confirms to some extent the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282372
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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-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular, job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282761
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Income comparisons among neighbours and life satisfaction in East and West Germany
Knies, Gundi - 2010
there is a divide between East and West Germany, but also that neighbours may not be a relevant comparison group in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288914
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The Joneses in Japan: Income comparisons and financial satisfaction
Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia; Yamada, Katsunori - 2013
This paper uses Japanese data which includes measures of self-declared satisfaction, reference-group income, and the … colleagues, and compare their incomes more. The relationship between satisfaction and others' income is negative, and more … negative for those who report greater income comparison intensity. A self-reported measure of others' income does better than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332346
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Tullock challenges: Happiness, revolutions and democracy
Frey, Bruno S. - 2011
Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical Tullock Challenges. The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...
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