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Occupational status and life satisfaction in the UK : the miserable middle?

Georgellis, Yannis; Clark, Andrew E.; Apergis, Emmanuel; … - 2022

We use British panel data to explore the link between occupational status and life satisfaction. We find puzzling … satisfaction scores than that of employees in either low- or high-status occupations. This puzzle disappears in panel data: the … satisfaction of any man rises as he moves up the status ladder. The culprit seems to be immobility: the miserable middle is caused …

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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

unemployment rate). We find that the satisfaction of unemployed people (relative to employed people) is lower when the unemployment …

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Types of institutions and well-being of self-employed and paid employees in Europe

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019

-employed and paid employed individuals. Well-being is operationalized by job and life satisfaction of individuals in 32 European …

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Types of institutions and well-being of self-employed and paid employees in Europe

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019

-employed and paid employed individuals. Well-being is operationalized by job and life satisfaction of individuals in 32 European …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006084

Different versions of the Easterlin Paradox : new evidence for European countries

Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2018

European countries. We do so by estimating country-panel equations for mean life satisfaction that include trend and cyclical … between per capita GDP and life satisfaction over time which is positive for poorer countries, but flat (or negative) for …

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The effect of immigration on natives' well-being in the European Union

O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019 - Version: May 24, 2019

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Europe today, yet little is known about the overall effect of its multiple impacts. The analysis suggests natives need not worry. Increasing immigrant population shares have no statistically significant effects on natives' well-being in 28...

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Explaining happiness trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...

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Is immigration good for Europe? : long-run evidence using comprehensive well-being

O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2024

The immigrant (foreign-born) population increased by 32 million in total across 37 European countries from 1990 to 2019. Much of this movement was from east to west. Indeed, both the total and foreign-born populations declined in the former Eastern Bloc over this period. Such demographic shifts...

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Associations of childhood health and financial situation with quality of life after retirement : regional variation across Europe

Börnhorst, Claudia; Heger, Dörte; Mensen, Anne - 2019

Many studies have shown that childhood circumstances can have long term consequences that persist until old age. To better understand the transmission of early life circumstances, this paper analyses the effects of health and financial situation during childhood on quality of life after...

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Comparative analysis of the level of satisfaction with the financial situation in Romania and EU countries

Necula, Diana Maria - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 224-233). 2023

The paper analyzes the satisfaction regarding the financial situation in Romania compared to the rest of the member … Median Income, but also satisfaction regarding the financial situation, based on the latest statistical data available on the … semantic differential method, it was possible to evaluate the degree of satisfaction with the financial situation of the …

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