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Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the European Social Survey to analyze the effects of aggregate immigration flows on the subjective well-being of native-born populations in a panel of 26 countries between 2002 and...
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Societal progress is characterized primarily as an improvement in the distribution of wellbeing; however, a small set of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select...
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Answers to the Eurobarometer question on Life Satisfaction are used to explore the effects of macroeconomic performance … between 2004 and 2011. It is found that variations in national levels of life satisfaction can largely be accounted by a small … number of socio-economic indicators. Life satisfaction is lowest in poor, corrupt countries where income inequality is …
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This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning future climate change on subjective wellbeing (SWB). We use data of a large representative survey amongst German households. The effect of experienced weather events on SWB of...
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globalization's impact on SWB has been surprisingly under-researched. This applies in particular to job satisfaction, including of … capable of capturing job satisfaction in conjunction with the income and distributional effects of offshoring. Contrary to a … regression model that combines information on offshoring and job satisfaction, lends support to our theoretical explanations …
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