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having purpose and meaning and life are increasingly used alongside income, employment, and consumption measures to provide a …
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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 a tenured position decreases satisfaction. However, the extent to …
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Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...
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evolving around employment conditions, self-employment, and potential public sector satisfaction premiums. A smaller part of … investigates the effect of job loss and becoming unemployed, another field of study focuses on the determinants of job satisfaction …
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"Examining the fundamental thinking underpinning the foundation for economic studies of happiness, this book explores the theories of key economists and philosophers from the Greek philosophers to more modern schools of thought. Lall Ramrattan and Michael Szenberg explore the general measures of...
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