Can "happiness data" help evaluate economic policies? : "happiness data" may help assess the walfare effects of a new labor market policy, like a change in benefit generosity

Robert Macculloch (Auckland University, New Zealand)

Imagine a government confronted with a controversial policy question, like whether it should cut the level of unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the welfare gap between the employed and unemployed increase? "Happiness data" offer a new way to make these kinds of evaluations. These data allow us to track the well-being of the whole population, and also sub-groups like the employed and unemployed people, and correlate the results with relevant policy changes.

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Year of publication:	January 2016
Authors:	Macculoch, Robert
Publisher:	Bonn : Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA)
Subject:	well-being \| happiness data \| unemployment benefit policy \| Zufriedenheit \| Satisfaction \| Arbeitslosenversicherung \| Unemployment insurance \| Arbeitsmarktpolitik \| Labour market policy \| Arbeitslosigkeit \| Unemployment \| Lohnersatzleistungen \| Earnings replacement benefits \| Arbeitsmarktreform \| Labour market reform \| Lebensqualität \| Quality of life \| Erwerbstätigkeit \| Employment \| Neuseeland \| New Zealand \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| Beschäftigungseffekt \| Employment effect

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