Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 633,393
Cover Image
Causal linkages between work and life satisfaction and their determinants in a structural VAR approach
Coad, Alexander; Binder, Martin - 2014
Work and life satisfaction depends on a number of pecuniary and nonpecuniary factors at the workplace and determines these in turn. We analyze these causal linkages using a structural vector autoregression approach for a sample of the German working populace collected from 1984 to 2008, finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365069
Cover Image
The structure of happiness : a vector autoregressive approach
Binder, Martin; Ward, Felix - 2011
autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlying structure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in … also examine how the structure of happiness differs with respect to different "Big Five" personality traits. Personality …-being ; happiness ; vector autoregressions ; SOEP ; personality traits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152984
Cover Image
Entrepreneurial success and subjective well-being : worries about the business explain one's well-being loss from self-employment
Binder, Martin - 2017
Despite lower incomes the self-employed often report higher job satisfaction. But this increased job satisfaction only sometimes translates into higher life satisfaction, likely due to the heterogeneous nature of self-employment. By distinguishingdifferent types of self-employment, this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782009
Cover Image
The Structure of Happiness: A Vector Autoregressive Approach
Binder, Martin; Ward, Felix - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlying structure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in … also examine how the structure of happiness differs with respect to different "Big Five" personality traits. Personality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147499
Cover Image
Endogeneity in the relation between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction
Hajek, André - 2013
-Kausalität kann angenommen werden. Zentrale Ergebnisse: Ein anfänglicher Anstieg der Zufriedenheit erhöht das individuelle Einkommen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209215
Cover Image
Poverty profiles and well-being : panel evidence from Germany
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2015 - This version: February 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493169
Cover Image
Optimism, pessimism and life satisfaction : an empirical investigation
Piper, Alan T. - 2019 - This version: February 2019
This empirical investigation into life satisfaction, using nationally representative German panel data, finds a substantial association with an individual's thoughts about the future, whether they are optimistic or pessimistic about it. Furthermore, including individuals' optimism and pessimism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986907
Cover Image
Life satisfaction, income and personality
Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - 2015
We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and punishment, is strong in both the British Household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479011
Cover Image
Causal Linkages between Work and Life Satisfaction and Their Determinants in a Structural VAR Approach
Coad, Alex; Binder, Martin - 2014
Work and life satisfaction depends on a number of pecuniary and nonpecuniary factors at the workplace and determines these in turn. We analyze these causal linkages using a structural vector autoregression approach for a sample of the German working populace collected from 1984 to 2008, finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144425
Cover Image
Revisiting cheerful Jane and miserable John : the impact of income, good health, social contacts and education declines with increasing subjective well-being
Binder, Martin - 2015
This short note seeks to replicate the quantile regression analysis in Binder and Coad (2011), but taking into account individual-specific fixed effects (using the BHPS data set). It finds declining effects of the four main variables of interest (health, social life, income, education) over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285402