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difference in happiness is not attributable to the difference of attributes and personalities, rejecting hypothesis 1). On the … other hand, the happiness of cabinet and anti-cabinet supporters was not significantly different after an election in which …
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This paper investigates how people's happiness depends on their current activities and on time. We conducted an hourly … web survey, in which 70 students reported their happiness every hour on one day every month from December 2006 to February … computers. Our new method has the same strength of ESM in that it can measure real-time happiness data and thus avoid reflection …
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explaining earnings gaps between sectors and types of employment. We also investigate other determinants of happiness, such as …
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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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Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
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findings in happiness regressions, such as a negative but u-shaped age effect, positive influences of education and relative …
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We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of...
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aspects of a person's wellbeing: functionings, happiness and capabilities. Results indicate that the production of activities … depends significantly inter alia on education, health and gender; that happiness depends on a wide variety of activities and …
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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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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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