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Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States
Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 5, pp. 1-30
Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on...
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Sustainability Policy Objectives, Centralized Decision Making, and Efficiency in Public Procurement Processes in U.S. Local Governments
Stritch, Justin - 2020
Some U.S. local governments are leveraging public procurement to meet their sustainability goals. However, does the simultaneous pursuit of multiple sustainability objectives potentially slow down the speed of procurement processes? We suggest that the simultaneous pursuit of multiple...
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American Home Furnishings Alliance, Mississippi Economic Council, and Mississippi Manufacturers Association v. United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, Amicus Curiae Brief...
Mascott, Jennifer; McCotter, R. Trent; Knopf, Jamieson; … - 2023
The Supreme Court has held that Article II’s vesting of executive power in the President, who must “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” provides the President with the power to remove most principal executive officers at will. The Court has also held that Humphrey’s Executor...
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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013 - This draft: March 15, 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727116
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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727586
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016
from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most … negatively and independently from the effect of life expectancy. There is no correlation with GDP. Econometric analysis of the …
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2015
go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective … wellbeing. An increase of 1% life expectancy is equivalent to more than 5% increase in yearly GDP. One year of internal conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296064
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Worldwide enterpreneurship leadership of Germany, Japan and the United States
Pena-Sanchez, Rolando - In: Journal of international business and economics : JIBE 21 (2021) 3, pp. 35-40
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Labor union membership and life satisfaction in the United States
Flavin, Patrick; Shufeldt, Gregory - In: Labor studies journal : official journal of United … 41 (2016) 2, pp. 171-184
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Comparing living and working conditions : Germany outperforms the United States
Priewe, Jan - 2024
This paper compares living and working conditions in the U.S. and Germany for the year 2022 with a focus on economic … only comprehensive comparison of living conditions in the U.S. and Germany. The result of the comparison shows that Germany … underlines the limited role of GDP per capita for the living conditions of the majority of the population while highlighting the …
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