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Poverty Profiles and Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Germany

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity...

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Hartz and minds: happiness effects of reforming an employment agency

Deter, Max - 2020

Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment rates. However, little is known about the reforms' effect on individual life satisfaction of unemployed workers. This study applies difference-in-difference estimations and...

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Well-being inequality and reference groups : an agenda for new research

Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2010 - Version March 3, 2010

consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

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Lower in rank, but happier: the complex relationship between status and happiness

Van Landeghem, Bert G. M.; Vandeplas, Anneleen - 2016

Case studies across the social sciences have established a positive relationship between social status and happiness …-shaped relation between status and happiness. The same trend is much less pronounced in data on 1000 individuals living in the state …

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Happiness and development

Nikolova, Milena - 2016

Subjective well-being (SWB) indicators, such as positive and negative emotions, life evaluations, and assessments of having purpose and meaning and life are increasingly used alongside income, employment, and consumption measures to provide a more comprehensive view of human progress. SWB...

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Social network sites, individual social capital and happiness

Arampatzi, Efstratia; Burger, Martijn J.; Novik, Natallia A. - 2016

Can online social contacts replace the importance of real-life social connections in our pursuit of happiness? With the … examines the effect of SNS use on happiness for different subgroups of young adults. More specifically, we examine whether the … effect of SNSs on happiness is moderated by individual social capital, as measured in terms of frequency of social contacts …

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Happiness and work

Krause, Annabelle - 2014

The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … the literature investigates potential driving effects of happiness on labor market outcomes. This article will give an …

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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016

We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern histories, there is no evidence on how it affected the...

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Paradox lost?

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2016

happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a … happiness. For some countries their estimated growth rates of happiness and GDP are not trend rates, but those observed in … cyclical expansion or contraction. Mixing these short-term with long-term growth rates shifts a happiness-GDP regression from a …

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Local neighbors as positives, regional neighbors as negatives : competing channels in the relationship between others' income, health, and happiness

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa; Graham, Carol - 2016

We develop a theoretical framework that considers four distinct explanatory channels through which neighbors' income could affect utility: public goods, cost of living, expectations of future income, and the direct effect (relative income hypothesis (RIH) and altruism). The relationship is...

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