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Hartz and minds: happiness effects of reforming an employment agency
Deter, Max - 2020
Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … unemployment rate. Also unemployed persons who exogenously lost their jobs are affected by the reforms. In line with the structure …
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Labor market policy and subjective well-being during the Great Recession
Morgan, Robson; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019
labor market policies. More generous unemployment support, which provided income replacement or programs to assist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151876
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The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and subjective well-being of workers: an event study based on high-frequency panel data
Schmidtke, Julia; Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2021
Using individual monthly panel data from December 2018 to December 2020, we estimate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and two lockdowns on the mental health and subjective well-being of German workers. Employing an event-study design using individual-specific fixed effects, we find that the...
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The effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the mental health and subjective wellbeing of workers: an event study based on high-frequency panel data
Schmidtke, Julia; Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2021
Der Beitrag untersucht die Auswirkungen der Covid-19-Pandemie und zweier Lockdowns auf die psychische Gesundheit und das subjektive Wohlbefinden von Beschäftigten in Deutschland. Hierzu wird mit Daten eines monatlichen Panels von Individualdaten von Dezember 2018 bis Dezember 2020 ein...
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Locked Out : Unemployment and Homelessness in the COVID Economy
Flaming, Daniel; Orlando, Anthony; Burns, Patrick; … - 2021
This report uses estimates from the Congressional Budget Office to project an unemployment scenario for the Pandemic … Recession. We go on to use detailed unemployment and homeless data from the 2008 Great Recession to estimate the linkage between … unemployment and homelessness and forecast the amount and type of pandemic-driven homelessness in Los Angeles, California and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251035
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Parental leave benefits and child penalties
Waights, Sevrin - 2022 - This version: August 2022
I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impact of the benefit amount available to high-earning women after their first childbirth on subsequent within-couple earnings inequality. Lower benefit amounts result in a reduced earnings gap that...
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The host with the most? : the effects of the Olympic Games on happiness
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2016
We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude of the effects is equivalent to moving from the bottom...
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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
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The effects of the Affordable Care Act medicaid expansion on subjective well-being
Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2019
This study analyzes the effects of the 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion on the subjective well-being of individuals in the United States. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that the expansion has significantly improved the overall life satisfaction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119022
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Who got the brexit blues? : using a quasi-experiment to show the effect of brexit on subjective wellbeing in the uk
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Plagnol, Anke C.; Frijters, Paul; … - 2017
We use the 2015-2016 waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) to look at subjective wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied...
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