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How has the crisis of 2008 - 2009 affected subjective well-being?
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2011
Results of life satisfaction regressions for more than 91,000 individuals are used to investigate how the macroeconomic crisis of 2008-2009 has affected subjective well-being (SWB) in 30 OECD countries. In a number of countries, the effect of the crisis on a representative person's SWB is of a...
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How Has the Crisis of 2008-2009 Affected Subjective Well-Being? Evidence from 25 OECD Countries
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2015
rates of GDP growth, unemployment and inflation during the macroeconomic crisis of 2008-2009 have affected subjective well …
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How has the crisis of 2008 - 2009 affected subjective well-being?
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009158926
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How has the crisis of 2008-09 affected subjective well-being? : evidence from 25 OECD countries
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - In: Bulletin of economic research 68 (2016) 1, pp. 34-54
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Macroeconomics and Life Satisfaction : Revisiting the 'Misery Index'
Welsch, Heinz - 2008
relationship between macroeconomics and subjective well-being by including the growth rate and the long-term interest rate as … additional variables in life satisfaction regressions. The paper finds that people care about growth and employment on the one … hand and stability on the other, where stability may alternatively be captured by the inflation rate or the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773203
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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility maximization, we predict that persons with higher perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302716
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The Happiness Gains From Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market
Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2007
Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on subjective well-being it is possible...
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Limited Self-Control, Obesity and the Loss of Happiness
Stutzer, Alois - 2007
Obesity has become a major health issue. Research in economics has provided important insights as to how technological progress reduced the relative price of food and contributed to the increase in obesity. However, the increased availability of food might well have overstrained will power and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390614
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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390638
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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility maximization, we predict that persons with higher perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422202