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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...
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Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of having a supplementary job was introduced to reduce welfare dependency and facilitate successful labor market integration. In the present study, we use the German Panel Study...
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Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift in 2005 … draw causal inference of sanction enforcements on unemployment exit hazards. Based on a novel survey sample covering the …
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This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the (short-term) welfare consequences of an alcohol ban. Using subjective well-being data to proxy individual welfare, I apply a regression discontinuity design where the date of the implementation of the ban in the German federal state of...
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This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the (short-term) welfare consequences of an alcohol ban. Using subjective well-being data to proxy individual welfare, I apply a regression discontinuity design where the date of the implementation of the ban in the German federal state of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897296
comparatively weak, we develop a model that identifies distributional consequences of unemployment with their importance conditional …-income countries, well-being significantly depends on income, in highincome countries on the unemployment-related Gini. Insofar, our … ; Welfare Economics ; Income Distribution ; Unemployment …
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of our analyses is on the pattern of life, job and health satisfaction over time and the influence of unemployment rates …. Looking at the impact of macroeconomic indicators such as GDP growth, inflation and unemployment, we find mostly diverse … between self-reported satisfaction and the regional unemployment rate: The higher regional unemployment the more satisfied …
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The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...
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This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well …. Topics covered include the estimation of non-pecuniary costs of unemployment, unemployment over time, the role of others …' unemployment, spill-over effects, and re-employment, among others. …
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less time at work outweighs the negative emotional effect of unemployment during leisure episodes, such that the unemployed …
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