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-reported happiness. This suggests that people who aim at increasing their happiness should try to find a better-paid job if their … associated with higher job mobility. We conclude that low relative income (compared to the neighbors) reduces workers' happiness …
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Innovation and technological progress are the key determinants of long-run economic growth and welfare. Therefore, an important question is, how can public policy encourage more innovation? In this chapter, I review some of the empirical findings from various recent studies on innovation and...
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Despite the increasing number of studies on self-reported happiness, due to data availability, only a few studies from … (temperature and rainfalls) on individual subjective well-being. We found that happiness is not associated with temperature, as … significantly associated with self-reported happiness. We found that the relationship is not linear, where higher rainfall is …
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Happiness is an aspiration of every human being, and can also be a measure of social progress. Yet can one say that … understand - concepts such as urban quality of living, wellbeing and happiness is an urban planning major tool. But how does one … measure an abstract concept such as happiness and how does one eventually use this knowledge in to plan and build our cities …
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well-being (happiness) by size (population) of a place to find out when a place is too big. The answer is somewhere between …
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Most of the aggregate level analyses on the relationship between objective and subjective measures for well-being have limited themselves to measures of national GDP and mean life satisfaction. We develop this line of research by embedding the analysis into the context of 289 NUTS regions in...
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