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Comparing the happiness effects of real and on-line friends
Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009711875
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Income comparisons among neighbours and life satisfaction in East and West Germany
Knies, Gundi - 2010
there is a divide between East and West Germany, but also that neighbours may not be a relevant comparison group in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825922
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sectorspecific institutional differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003667024
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Using the life satisfaction approach to value daylight savings time transitions : evidence from Britain and Germany
Kuehnle, Daniel; Wunder, Christoph - 2014
regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that … individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413185
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Using the life satisfaction approach to value daylight savings time transitions : evidence from Britain and Germany
Kuehnle, Daniel; Wunder, Christoph - 2015
regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that … individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010497055
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Income comparison and happiness within households
Salland, Jan - Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / Fächergruppe … - 2021
This paper applies the German Socio-Economic Panel to analyse the effect of within household in-come comparison on … individual life satisfaction. Our estimates indicate, a primary breadwinner wifedecreases spousal individual happiness by roughly … income comparison forindividual happiness. Wives (barely) outearning their husbands seem to signal ’competition’. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820346
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Work-life balance versus work-life merge : a comparative and thematic analysis of workplace well-being
Sharkey, Jennifer; Caska, Barbara - In: DBS business review : an international academic … 3 (2019), pp. 49-72
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012586625
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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what is happening to the incomes of others. An increase in the incomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604148
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Better off? : distributional comparisons for ordinal data about personal well-being
Jenkins, Stephen - In: New Zealand economic papers 54 (2020) 3, pp. 211-238
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012384434
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and private sectors
Lüchinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008 - Version of: March 11, 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular, job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632445