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Families, time and well-being in Canada
Burton, Peter; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
paid work hours are negatively correlated with life satisfaction, our results suggest that inequality of well-being may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335565
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You Don't Know What You've Got till It's Gone! Unemployment and Intertemporal Changes in Self-Reported Life Satisfaction
Klemm, Marcus - 2011
This paper uses concurrently and - for the first time - retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to … correlation of unemployment and subjective life satisfaction. It is found that unemployed individuals do not only report … significantly lower concurrent satisfaction, but also recall reduced satisfaction from past unemployment well, and retrospectively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601063
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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German …-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601067
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On gender inequality and life satisfaction: Does discrimination matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2007
This paper analyzes the impact of gender discrimination on individual life satisfaction using a cross-section of 66 … matters does overall not affect life satisfaction. However, women are more satisfied with their lives when discriminatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277784
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Putting different price tags on the same health condition: Re-evaluating the well-being valuation approach
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; van den Berg, Bernard - 2011
Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is currently no clear consensus on what the best measure of individual's experience may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278781
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Formal institutions and subjective well-being: Revisiting the cross-country evidence
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008
A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281226
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On gender inequality and life satisfaction: Does discrimination matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2007
This paper analyzes the impact of gender discrimination on individual life satisfaction using a cross-section of 66 … matters does overall not affect life satisfaction. However, women are more satisfied with their lives when discriminatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281375
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Multidimensional well-being at the top: Evidence for Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German …-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282585
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Subjective measures of well-being
Veenhoven, Ruut - 2004
This paper deals with three questions: (1) What are ‘subjective’ measures? (2) What is ‘well-being’? and (3) Are subjective measures of well-being of use for policymaking, in particular in developing nations? The first question is answered by making a distinction between two kinds of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279097
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The Selection of Pay Referents: Potential Patterns and Impacts on Life Satisfaction
Schneider, Simone - 2010
groupsare most detrimental to life satisfaction? The analysis is based on data from the 2008 and 2009 pretest modules of the …. The consequences of such comparisons for life satisfaction prove to be negative: the more importance an individual … attaches to income comparisons with reference groups, the lower his or her life satisfaction. Income relative to neighbors and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600975