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Explaining well-being over the life cycle : a look at life transitions during young adulthood
Switek, Malgorzata - 2013
affect well-being, and to what degree can they account for the life satisfaction path followed during young adulthood? To … transitions undergone during each age interval are examined. Life satisfaction at ages 22 to 40 follows a slight inverse U … overall life satisfaction. Partnership formation, the school-to-work transition, and parenting younger children are all …
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Family matters: involuntary parental unemployment during childhood and subjective wellbeing later in life
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N. - 2018
life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and … experienced during early (0-5 years) and late (11-15 years) childhood leads to lower life satisfaction at ages 18-31. Nevertheless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131231
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How the well-being function varies with age : the importance of income, health, and social relations over the life cycle
Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan; Welsch, Heinz - 2023 - This Version: July 2023
increases monotonically and progressively with age. Our results are similar for alternative measures of SWB (life satisfaction …
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Psychological empowerment and life satisfaction : the mediating effect of organisational citizenship behaviour
Vijayalakshmi, P. - In: International journal of business innovation and … 31 (2023) 3, pp. 339-355
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Are unhappy people more likely to be religious? : evidence from Chinese rural elderly
Xia, Liying; Zhang, Jianbo; Ma, Xuelin - In: Quantitative analysis of social and financial market …, (pp. 143-155). 2022
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TV channels, self control and happiness
Benesch, Christine (contributor); Frey, Bruno S. (contributor) - 2006
viewers do not benefit, but instead report lower life satisfaction when exposed to more TV channels. This finding runs counter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003410485
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On the relation between income inequality and happiness : do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian (contributor);  … - 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...
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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662483
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Does a better job match makes women happier? : work orientations, work-care choices and subjective well-being in Germany
Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Kemperman, Bauke - 2011
The study examines the effects of work orientations and work-leisure choices alongside the effect of genes or personality traits on subjective well-being (SWB). The former effects are assumed to be mediated by the match between women's preferred and actual number of working hours indicating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008858153
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Lebenszufriedenheit und Wohlbefinden in Deutschland : Studie zur Konstruktion eines Lebenszufriedenheitsindikators
Suntum, Ulrich van; Prinz, Aloys; Uhde, Nicole - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008858404