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Empirical analysis of life satisfaction in German Benedictine monasteries
Janotík, Tomáš - 2013
happiness research in economics. A dataset of 154 Benedictine nuns is analyzed. The main objective is to identify the most … important determinants of happiness of Benedictines and to empirically evaluate the hypothesis that they have very high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010411004
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Lebenszufriedenheit und Wohlbefinden in Deutschland : Studie zur Konstruktion eines Lebenszufriedenheitsindikators
Suntum, Ulrich van; Prinz, Aloys; Uhde, Nicole - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008858404
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Capabilities and choices : do they make Sen'se for understanding objective and subjective well-being?
Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Headey, Bruce - 2011
In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009158055
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Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification : additional Insights on the pattern of convergence
Petrunyk, Inna; Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283071
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Do people seek to maximize their subjective well-being?
Fleurbaey, Marc; Schwandt, Hannes - 2015
best contender as the "maximand" in the contest, before the ladder‐of‐life question and felt happiness. Among the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376247
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Well-being inequality and reference groups : an agenda for new research
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2010 - Version March 3, 2010
consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379637
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Internet use and subjective well-being in China
Nie, Peng; Nimrod, Galit; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2015
Using data from the 2010 China Family Panel Studies, we analyze the association between Internet use and various measures of subjective well-being (SWB) in a sample of 16- to 60- year-old Chinese. Our analysis shows that although intensive Internet use is significantly associated with lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325811
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Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification : additional insights on the pattern of convergence
Pfeifer, Christian; Petrunyk, Inna - 2015
The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528651
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Time packages and their effect on life satisfaction
Della Giusta, Marina; Jewell, Sarah; King, Zella - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009749562
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Work hours constraints : impacts and policy implications
Constant, Amelie; Otterbach, Steffen - 2011
importance; they guarantee high productivity, quality output, and individual happiness. Employees demand higher social awareness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419129