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Happiness and work
Krause, Annabelle - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403446
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Obesity and Happiness
Katsaiti, Marina-Selini - 2010
This paper provides insight on the relationship between obesity and happiness. Using the latest available cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600913
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Going beyond average Joe's Happiness: Using quantile regressions to analyze the full subjective well-being distribution
Binder, Martin; Coad, Alex - 2010
distribution: studies based on such regression techniques thus are implicitly only interested in Average Joe's happiness. Using … analyze effects of a set of explanatory variables on different quantiles of the happiness distribution and compare these … results with an ordinary least squares regression. We also analyze some reversed relationships, where happiness enters the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281851
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Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods : is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction?
Knies, Gundi; Nandi, Alita; Platt, Lucinda - 2014
Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241302
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Heterogeneity in the relationship between unemployment and subjective well-being : a quantile approach
Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - 2014
Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective well-being (or "happiness"). In the present paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365092
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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 underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251177
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Self-reported satisfaction and the economic crisis of 2007 - 10 : or how people in the UK and Germany perceive a severe cyclical downturn
Mertens, Antje; Beblo, Miriam - 2013
Self-reported satisfaction measures respond to a great variety of socio-demographic characteristics as well as the job and living environment. In this paper we ask whether the recent financial market crisis has caused a deterioration of satisfaction not only for the unemployed but also for those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128239
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Back to Bentham, should we? : large-scale comparison of experienced versus decision utility
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier - 2017
Subjective well-being (SWB) data is increasingly used to perform welfare analyses. In- terpreted as 'experienced utility', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific experiments, most often based on stated preferences. Results point to an overall congruence between these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112116
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Back to bentham, should we? : large-scale comparison of experienced versus decision utility
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier - 2017
Subjective well-being (SWB) data is increasingly used to perform welfare analyses. Interpreted as 'experienced utility', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific experiments, most often based on stated preferences. Results point to an overall congruence between these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709615
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Worker well-being before and during the COVID-19 restrictions : a longitudinal study in the UK
Pelly, Diane; Doyle, Orla; Daly, Michael; Delaney, Liam - 2021
The potential impact of COVID-19 restrictions on worker well-being is currently unknown. In this study we examine 15 well-being outcomes collected from 621 full-time workers assessed before (November, 2019 - February, 2020) and during (May-June, 2020) the COVID-19 pandemic. Fixed effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437086