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How green self image affects subjective well-being : pro-environmental values as a social norm

Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2017

Recent literature has found that individuals holding a greener self-image display higher levels of life satisfaction. We extend the single-country setting of that research to a transnational perspective and explore whether a relationship exists between green self-image (GSI) and life...

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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence

Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009

Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...

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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 the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...

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Is unemployment a consequence of social interactions? Seeking for a common research framework for economists and other social scientists

Tolciu, Andreia - 2008

unemployment status. Two directions of the ongoing research are analyzed: the impact of social norms on unemployment and the …

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Is unemployment a consequence of social interactions? Seeking for a common research framework for economists and other social scientists

Tolciu, Andreia - Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI) - 2008

unemployment status. Two directions of the ongoing research are analyzed: the impact of social norms on unemployment and the …

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Redistributing opportunities in a job search model: the role of self-confidence and social norms

Drago, Francesco - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2004

In this paper we explore the effects of redistributive policies in a job search model where different degrees of self-confidence generate different arrival rates of new jobs. We find that the job search model is an useful framework to address behavioral concerns about personal motivation. We...

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Income or leisure? : on the hidden benefits of (un-)employment

Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2017 - This version: August 8, 2017

We study the usually assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions using comprehensive German panel data. We compare non-employed individuals after plant closures with employed people regarding both income and time use as well as their subjective perceptions of these two...

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Income or leisure? : on the hidden benefits of (un-)employment

Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2017 - This version: July 11, 2017

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Income or leisure? : on the hidden benefits of (un-)employment

Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2017

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Life satisfaction, pro-activity, and employment

Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Yilmaz, Levent - 2021

negatively associated with the well-being loss upon unemployment. That is, the negative unemployment shock on their well-being is … with proactivity during the unemployment period. The results are robust to various checks including estimators, measures …

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