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Females Welcome? Gender-Specific Immigration and Subjective Well-Being in Germany and Spain

Brockmann, Hilke; Fernandez-Urbano, Roger - 2023

Does the gender of immigrants affect the subjective well-being of natives? Our analysis is based on representative data from Germany and Catalonia (Spain). Both regions represent two most-different EU cases in terms of macroeconomic context, political mobilisation, and typology of migrants....

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Literature review on the effect of physical and mental health on financial well-being

Swensen, Isaac D.; Urban, Carly - 2023

Adverse health conditions have the potential to financially cripple American households. This report reviews the large literature that considers the ways in which health-both physical and mental-impacts household finances. The review largely includes studies with U.S. populations and spans many...

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Wellbeing Rankings

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

affect measures - life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested – and four negative affect variables – pain … ranks lowest - just below South Sudan. The Nordic countries that traditionally rank high using life satisfaction do not rank …

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The Economics of Happiness Research

Fernandez-Urbano, Roger - 2022

This Encyclopedia entry aims to review the current state of the art on the economics of happiness. It is organized into past, present and future research. The past research section focuses on the moral philosophical theory of utilitarianism and the ‘method dispute’ in the late 18th and early...

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‘Tiger-Hunting’ and Life Satisfaction : A Matter of Trust

Zhang, Youxing; Hetschko, Clemens; Howley, Peter - 2022

show that such signals may increase the salience of the issue in question and hence diminish the life satisfaction of … citizens with low political trust. For citizens with high trust, such signals appear to enhance life satisfaction. This means …

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Subjective well-being in Spain's decline

Álvarez Nogal, Carlos; Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2023

Spain experienced economic decline from the 1570s to 1650, recovering gradually thereafter and only reaching its early 1570s per capita income in the 1820s. How did economic decline impact on people's perception of well-being and inequality? We provide an answer based on an unexplored source,...

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The effect of the "Woman Life Freedom" protests on life satisfaction in Iran : evidence from survey data

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

2022 on individual life satisfaction. To evaluate the impact, we use two original representative surveys in Iran conducted … that the violent protest environment had a significant and negative effect on life satisfaction in Iran. To determine the …' locations. The protest environment reduced the probability of life satisfaction by 3.7 percentage points. Moreover, we find …

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Were Covid and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023

slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which has been rising …

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Are senior entrepreneurs happier than who? : the role of income and health

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2023

We propose an extension of the standard occupational choice model to analyze the life satisfaction of senior … as main factors that shape the relationship between occupational status and life satisfaction. Senior entrepreneurs enjoy … higher levels of life satisfaction than retirees and senior paid employees. This higher life satisfaction is mainly due to …

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Is a sorrow shared a sorrow doubled? : parental unemployment and the life satisfaction of adolescent children

Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Lücke, Christine - 2023

children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal …

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