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A Success Story? Happiness in the New Post-Communist EU Member States
Baltatescu, Sergiu - 2011
-economic transformations in these countries? Did they manage to increase their citizens’ happiness in this process? To give an answer to these … Development Indicators. Developments in average national happiness have been compared with the economic (GDP, optimism concerning … happiness levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175782
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Subjective economic well-being in Eastern Europe
Hayo, Bernd; Seifert, Wolfgang - 2002
findings in happiness regressions, such as a negative but u-shaped age effect, positive influences of education and relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494190
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Subjective economic well-being in Eastern Europe
Hayo, Bernd; Seifert, Wolfgang - 2002
findings in happiness regressions, such as a negative but u-shaped age effect, positive influences of education and relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302266
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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and Their Welfare Effects
Senik, Claudia - 2021
This paper provides unheard direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect on subjective well-being. It also evaluates the relative importance of different types of benchmarks. Dynamic comparisons outweigh static ones. Internal benchmarks are more important than external reference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316674
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Happiness in Transition : An Empirical Study on Eastern Europe
Hayo, Bernd - 2007
similar impact on happiness in Eastern Europe under a condition of dramatic economic, political, and social change. The … set. Cross-country differences in aggregate happiness can be explained well by variations in the unemployment rates, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049161
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Minding the happiness gap : political institutions and perceived quality of life in transition
Nikolova, Milena - 2015
the advanced and transition societies. The rule of law had an additional role of reducing the happiness gap in the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387030
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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern histories, there is no evidence on how it affected the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449769
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In transit : the well-being of migrants from transition and post-transition countries
Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2014
The extant literature has focused on migration's consequences for the receiving countries. In this paper, we ask a different but important question: how much do migrants gain from moving to another country? Using Gallup World Poll data and a methodology combining statistical matching with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412653
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Migrant well-being after leaving transition economies : evidence is mixed on whether quality of life improves for migrants from post-socialist economies
Nikolova, Milena - 2015
Most comparative research suggests that immigrants from post-socialist countries earn less than natives, work in jobs for which they are overqualified, and may experience unhappiness compared with natives, other immigrants, and non-migrants. In contrast, one study presents causal evidence which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433593
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Can Religion Insure Against Aggregate Shocks to Happiness? The Case of Transition Countries
Popova, Olga - 2010
This paper focuses on the effects of reforms and religion on happiness in transition economies. Previous literature … suggests that religiousness insures happiness against individual stressful life events, such as unemployment, disability, or … marital separation. I estimate an econometric model to study if religion also insures against aggregate shocks to happiness …
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