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explaining earnings gaps between sectors and types of employment. We also investigate other determinants of happiness, such as …
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Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
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The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … the literature investigates potential driving effects of happiness on labor market outcomes. This article will give an …
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This paper investigates how people's happiness depends on their current activities and on time. We conducted an hourly … web survey, in which 70 students reported their happiness every hour on one day every month from December 2006 to February … computers. Our new method has the same strength of ESM in that it can measure real-time happiness data and thus avoid reflection …
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their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases …. Assuming that lockdowns constrain married people to spend time solely with their spouses, simulations show that their happiness … this inference. Simulations demonstrate clearly that, assuming lockdowns impose solitude on singles, their happiness was …
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. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental …
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This study aims to shed light on the well-being of unemployed individuals in Turkey by posing two questions. First, are the unemployed unhappier compared to the employed? Second, are the unemployed even unhappier than people unsatisfied with their job? We utilize the Life Satisfaction Survey's...
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Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...
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We use British panel data to explore the link between occupational status and life satisfaction. We find puzzling evidence, for men, of a U-shaped relationship in cross-section data: employees in medium-status occupations report lower life satisfaction scores than that of employees in either...
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This paper examines two aspects of work family conflict: work conflicting with family and Family conflicts with work among the employees working in the public and private sectors banks in Gujarat. Conflict is the incompatibility faced by an individual among themselves and with other objects at...
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