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We use British panel data to explore the link between occupational status and life satisfaction. We find puzzling … satisfaction scores than that of employees in either low- or high-status occupations. This puzzle disappears in panel data: the … satisfaction of any man rises as he moves up the status ladder. The culprit seems to be immobility: the miserable middle is caused …
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Since 1972 the General Social Survey (GSS) has asked a representative sample of US adults “… [are] you …very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?” Overall, the population is reasonably happy even after a mild recent decline. I focus on differences along standard socio demographic...
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buffering the adverse effects of challenging life circumstances in three key domains-employment, marriage, and health …
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general life satisfaction question, differs between youths living in intact and non-intact families, holding many other …
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the satisfaction differences between work-linked and non-work-linked partners. Using data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP, 2019), we estimate the effect of working in the same occupation and/or industry on life satisfaction as well as … satisfaction with four areas of life: income, work, family and leisure. In the process, we employ pooled OLS estimations and …
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the satisfaction differences between work-linked and non-work-linked partners. Using data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP, 2019), we estimate the effect of working in the same occupation and/or industry on life satisfaction as well as … satisfaction with four areas of life: income, work, family and leisure. In the process, we employ pooled OLS estimations and …
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the satisfaction differences between work-linked and non-work-linked partners. Using data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP, 2019), we estimate the effect of working in the same occupation and/or industry on life satisfaction as well as … satisfaction with four areas of life: income, work, family and leisure. In the process, we employ pooled OLS estimations and …
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education gap on males’ and females’ life satisfaction. The study finds that a spousal education gap, whether positive or … negative, does not have any significant impact on males’ and females’ life satisfaction. To further investigate these issues … spousal education gap has an insignificant impact on life satisfaction in both of these groups. …
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Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that non-partnered mothers spend slightly less time performing childcare, but much less time in other household activities than partnered mothers. Unpartnered mothers' total work time - paid work and household...
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This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set … spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely for marriage and that there are large differences in … the benefits from marriage between couples. Potential, as well as actual, division of labor seems to contribute to spouses …
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