Mental health status often has a strong association with labour market outcomes. If people in temporary employment have poorer mental health than those in permanent employment then it is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities: temporary employment generates adverse mental health...

Mental health status often has a strong association with labour market outcomes. If people in temporary employment have poorer mental health than those in permanent employment then it is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities: temporary employment generates adverse mental health...

This paper is concerned with whether employees on temporary contracts in Britain report lower well-being than those on permanent contracts, and whether this relationship is mechanised by differences in certain aspects of job satisfaction. Previous research has identified a well-being gap between...

Mental health status often has a strong association with labour market outcomes. If people in temporary employment have poorer mental health than those in permanent employment then it is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities: temporary employment generates adverse mental health...

Optimism, the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of positive events, is one of the most established psychological “biases”. So too are the apparently counteracting phenomena of loss and disappointment aversion. We propose an evolutionary based reconciliation of these seemingly...

The preferences and traits that make entrepreneurship unprofitable, usually encourage entrepreneurial entry decisions. We investigate this proposition, where the taste parameter is impatience. Impatient employees search less intensively for entrepreneurial opportunities. However, once a prospect...

We are often preoccupied with the future, experiencing dread at the thought of future misery and savoring the thought of future pleasure. Prior lab studies have found that these anticipatory emotions influence decision-making. In this article, using a novel approach, we use economic survey data...

Systematic differences in the attitudes of men and women toward risk is well established and has been shown to contribute substantially to gender-specific outcomes within labour markets and goods markets. Despite these important implications, surprisingly little is known about the source of...