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Self-reported satisfaction and the economic crisis of 2007 - 10 : or how people in the UK and Germany perceive a severe cyclical downturn
Mertens, Antje; Beblo, Miriam - 2013
, inflation rates and GDP growth. We compare the UK and Germany, two countries with different employment protection regulations … somewhat surprised to find significant differences between the formerly separated parts of Germany even twenty years after re …-unification - not only in satisfaction but also its determinants. While people living in the western part of Germany report somewhat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128239
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Characteristics of Unemployment Dynamics : The Chain Reaction Approach
Snower, Dennis J.; Karanassou, Marika - 2021
lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321310
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Shopping around : how households adjusted food spending over the Great Recession
Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2015
Over the Great Recession UK households reduced real food expenditure. We show that they were able to maintain the number of calories that they purchased, and the nutritional quality of these calories, by adjusting their shopping behaviour. We document the mechanisms that households used. We...
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Changing patterns of fiscal policy multipliers in Germany, the UK and the US
Cimadomo, Jacopo; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès - In: Journal of macroeconomics 34 (2012) 3, pp. 845-873
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502264
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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics : the chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325992
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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics : the chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labour market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736641
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Happiness and work
Krause, Annabelle - 2014
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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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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Time use, unemployment, and well-being : an empirical analysis using British time-use data
Hoang, Thi Truong An; Knabe, Andreas - 2019
We use nationally representative data from the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/2015 to investigate how a person's employment status is related to time use and cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being. We find that unemployed persons report substantially lower levels of life...
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