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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Social norms are usually neglected in economics because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to live off one’s own income and we show that this norm has important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703429
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The role of social work norms in job searching and subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2003 - revised December 2003
Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401423
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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2001
Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262506
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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 analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403446
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Does the unemployment rate moderate the well-being disadvantage of the unemployed? : within-region estimates from the European Social Survey
Hajdu, Gábor; Hajdu, Tamás - 2020
Using eight waves of the European Social Survey, we analysed how the local unemployment rate influences the well … unemployment rate). We find that the satisfaction of unemployed people (relative to employed people) is lower when the unemployment … regarding the happiness scores. Our results do not support the “social norm of unemployment” hypothesis that states that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293991
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Does the unemployment rate moderate the well-being disadvantage of the unemployed? Within-region estimates from the European Social Survey
Hajdu, Gábor; Hajdu, Tamás - 2020
Using eight waves of the European Social Survey, we analysed how the local unemployment rate influences the well … unemployment rate). We find that the satisfaction of unemployed people (relative to employed people) is lower when the unemployment … regarding the happiness scores. Our results do not support the 'social norm of unemployment' hypothesis that states that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604908
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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 analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409386
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Heterogeneity in the relationship between unemployment and subjective well-being: A quantile approach
Binder, Martin; Coad, Alex - 2014
Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective well-being (or "happiness"). In the present paper …, we use panel quantile regression techniques in order to analyze to what extent the negative impact of unemployment varies … unemployed. A similar but stronger effect of unemployment is found for a broad mental well-being variable (GHQ-12). For happy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513038
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Heterogeneity in the relationship between unemployment and subjective well-being : a quantile approach
Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - 2014
Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective well-being (or "happiness"). In the present paper …, we use panel quantile regression techniques in order to analyze to what extent the negative impact of unemployment varies … unemployed. A similar but stronger effect of unemployment is found for a broad mental well-being variable (GHQ-12). For happy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365092
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Happiness and Work
Krause, Annabelle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959638