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Happiness as a guide to labor market policy : happiness is key to a productive economy, and a job is key to individual happiness

Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015

Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and … unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when such policies prolong unemployment, the net effect on national …

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Competition and well-being

Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2004

We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff gains for the short side of the market. We also find that...

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The impact of worship on individual's well-being

Munir, Fozia; Awan, Ashar; Hamdani, Syed Nisar Hussain - In: Journal of advanced research in law and economics : JARLE 3 (2012) 2, pp. 21-30

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Anti-smoking policies and smoker well-being : evidence from Britain

Leicester, Andrew; Levell, Peter - 2013

Anti-smoking policies can in theory make smokers better off, by helping smokers with time-inconsistent preferences commit to giving up or reducing the amount they smoke. We use almost 20 years of British individual-level panel data to explore the impact on self-reported psychological well-being...

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Using motivation theory to develop a transformative consumer research agenda for reducing materialism in society

Burroughs, James E.; Chaplin, Lan Nguyen; Pandelaere, Mario - In: Journal of public policy & marketing : JPP & M ; an … 32 (2013) 1, pp. 18-31

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Human well-being and in-work benefits : a randomized controlled trial

Dorsett, Richard; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

Many politicians believe they can intervene in the economy to improve people's lives. But can they? In a social experiment carried out in the United Kingdom, extensive in-work support was randomly assigned among 16,000 disadvantaged people. We follow a sub-sample of 3,500 single parents for 5...

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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for …

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Does social connection turn good deeds into good feelings? : on the value of putting the 'social' in prosocial spending

Aknin, Lara B.; Dunn, Elizabeth W.; Sandstrom, Gillian M.; … - In: International journal of happiness and development 1 (2013) 2, pp. 155-171

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Well-being and economic development : a principal components analysis

Wong, Kin-ming - In: International journal of happiness and development 1 (2013) 2, pp. 131-141

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Can we - and should we - measure well-being?

White, Mark D. - In: Review of social economy : publication of the … 71 (2013) 4, pp. 526-533

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