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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011513025
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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515336
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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 …, we use panel quantile regression techniques in order to analyze to what extent the negative impact of unemployment varies … unemployed. A similar but stronger effect of unemployment is found for a broad mental well-being variable (GHQ-12). For happy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365092
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Staying Down with the Joneses : Neighbourhood Differences in the Well-being Effects of Unemployment
Howley, Peter; Knight, Sarah - 2019
Previous research has demonstrated that unemployment has an adverse effect on mental well-being but that peer effects … as captured by the unemployment of neighbours can moderate these negative impacts. The idea being that contact with … differences in the extent to which the unemployment of neighbours alleviates the psychological distress associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014033646
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984507
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Welfare while working : how does the life satisfaction approach help to explain job search behavior?
Wolf, Tobias - 2020
This paper examines the role of life satisfactioninthe labor market behavior of workers receiving welfare benefits while working. Welfare stigma and other hard-to-observe factors may affect outcomes as on-the-job search and the duration until leaving welfare status. We utilize life satisfaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265186
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Do parents expect too much or is it all about grades? : the discrepancy between parents’ aspirations and child’s academic performance, and parental satisfaction with the school
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23
Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore, it is important to understand whether parental satisfaction with the school depends only on objective measures of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013449390
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Going solo: how starting solo self-employment affects incomes and well-being
Cribb, Jonathan; Xu, Xiaowei - 2020
Using a large-scale panel data set, we trace the evolution of incomes and well-being around the entry into 'solo self-employment' - that is, running a business without employees. We find that solo self-employment is used to self-insure against employment shocks: employment rates fall and poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253292
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Welfare to Work : Or Work Discipline Revisited
Carney AO, Terry - 2010
Australia recently enacted welfare-to-work reforms for sole parents, the partially disabled and the long-term unemployed. At the same time, it enacted labour law reforms which dismantled labour law award protections in favour of 'individual bargaining'. This paper argues that the combined effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058948
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The Declining Mental Health Of The Young And The Global Disappearance Of The Hump Shape In Age In Unhappiness
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Xu, Xiaowei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Across many studies subjective well-being follows a U-shape in age, declining until people reach middle-age, only to rebound subsequently. Ill-being follows a mirror-imaged hump-shape. But this empirical regularity has been replaced by a monotonic decrease in illbeing by age. The reason for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528377