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Can "happiness data" help evaluate economic policies? : "happiness data" may help assess the walfare effects of a new labor market policy, like a change in benefit generosity
Macculoch, Robert - 2016
unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the … welfare gap between the employed and unemployed increase? "Happiness data" offer a new way to make these kinds of evaluations …
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Employed but still unhappy? : on the relevance of the social work norm
Chadi, Adrian - 2011
In the modern welfare state, people who cannot make a living usually receive financial assistance from public funds. Accordingly, the so-called social work norm against living off other people is violated, which may be the reason why the unemployed are so unhappy. If so, however, labour market...
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Income Support, (Un-)Employment and Well-Being
Hetschko, Clemens - 2016
analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272954
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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB)systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272967
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Unemployment as a social norm in Germany
Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2008
regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less … negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an …
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Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States
Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 5, pp. 1-30
Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and …
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Employee's subjective-well-being and job discretion : designing gendered happy jobs
Bastida, Maria; Neira, Isabel; Lacalle-Calderon, Maricruz - In: European research on management and business economics 28 (2022) 2, pp. 1-8
This paper analyses the influence of job discretion on employees' subjective well-being (SWB) from a gender-based approach. Specifically, it explores whether the level of discretion given to employees in performing their jobs influences their SWB and whether this impact differs between women and...
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Does access to free pre-kindergarten increase maternal labor supply?
Ilin, Elias; Shampine, Samantha; Terry, Ellyn - 2022
In this paper, we evaluate the effects of free pre-kindergarten (pre-K) programs on the labor force participation (LFP) of mothers. We use variation in pre-K rules across all US states, including income eligibility requirements in some states. To estimate the causal effects of access to pre-K on...
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Inter-regional project : How to strengthen social protection coverage in the context of the European Union Agenda on decent work and promoting employment in the informal economy. T...
Chandoevwit, Worawan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Thailand is a middle-income country with per capita income of 134,343 baht or US$3,887 in 2007.1 It was once an agrarian economy, but with the pace of development, its economy now relies more on industry and services. As a result, employment in these sectors has been increasing. With the move...
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