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Types of institutions and well-being of self-employed and paid employees in Europe
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019
-employed and paid employed individuals. Well-being is operationalized by job and life satisfaction of individuals in 32 European … important role well-being. The results suggest that fostering an entrepreneurial society in Europe is a welfare enhancing …
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Types of institutions and well-being of self-employed and paid employees in Europe
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019
-employed and paid employed individuals. Well-being is operationalized by job and life satisfaction of individuals in 32 European … important role well-being. The results suggest that fostering an entrepreneurial society in Europe is a welfare enhancing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006084
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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022
We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include models accounting for several confounders, regional and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698819
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The subjective cost of young children : a European comparison
Spitzer, Sonja; Greulich, Angela; Hammer, Bernhard - 2018
and compare the cost of children in Europe by analysing the effect of child births on parents’ self-reported ability to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943517
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Two pandemic years greatly reduced young people's life satisfaction : evidence from a comparison with pre-COVID-19 panel data
Neugebauer, Martin; Patzina, Alexander; Dietrich, Hans; … - 2023
they often lack a comparison group that was unaffected by the pandemic, and the observation window is usually short. Here …, we compared the 2-year development of life satisfaction of German high school students during COVID-19 (N = 2,698) with … satisfaction in winter 2020/2021 (Cohen's d = -0.40) that was approximately three times stronger than that in the general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437912
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502264
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How persistent is life satisfaction? : evidence from European immigration
Berggren, Niclas; Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian; … - 2018
This paper asks to what extent life satisfaction among immigrants remains similar to that in their country of origin … satisfaction from the country of origin is strong for migrants from developed countries and close to zero for migrants from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011824757
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Were COVID and the Great Recession well-being reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Using micro-data on six surveys - the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System … the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 - we show individuals' reports of subjective wellbeing in Europe did decline in the … the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014325714
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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We show individuals' reports of subjective well being in Europe did decline in the Great Recession and during the Covid …' expectations of the economy and the labor market. Neither the UN's Human Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World … Happiness Report from the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322884
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The happiness gains from sorting and matching in the labor market
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - 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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