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The curved relationship between subjective well-being and age

Clark, Andrew E.; Oswald, Andrew J. - HAL - 2006

This article is concerned with a body of work on happiness and age represented by important papers such as Mroczek and …

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Disparities in taking sick leave between sectors of activity in France: a longitudinal analysis of administrative data

Barnay, Thomas; Juin, Sandrine; Legal, Renaud - HAL - 2014

The main objective of this study is to analyse the effect of the professional environment on sick leaves. The professional context is approximated by the sector of activity. The database used - Hygie (2005-2008) - allows taking individual heterogeneity into account thanks to the longitudinal...

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The birth of the congressional clinic

Godefroy, Raphaël - HAL - 2010

This paper investigates the impact of mortality in the districts/states represented in key congressional groups (i.e. committees, subcommittees, and parties) on the public investment in medical research in the US. I focus on National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grants awarded between...

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Short-Term cost impact of compliance with clinical practice guidelines for initial sarcoma treatment

Perrier, Lionel; Cautela, Nicola; Morelle, Magali; … - HAL - 2008

Background: The impact of compliance to clinical practice guidelines (CPG) on outcomes and/or costs of care has not been completely clarified.Objective: To estimate relationships between medical expenditures and compliance to CPG for initial sarcoma treatment.Research design: Selected cohorts of...

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The Inclusive Wealth Index. A Sustainability Indicator, Really?

Thiry, Géraldine; Roman, Philippe - HAL - 2014

Among recent high-profile propositions to revise national accounts and to provide new indicators of sustainability and well-being, the Inclusive Wealth Framework and the related Inclusive Wealth Index (thereafter IWI), first released during the "Rio+20" Conference, undoubtedly stand out as the...

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Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US

Brodeur, Abel; Flèche, Sarah - HAL - 2013

This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and street-levels and find that the association between well-being and neighbors' income follows an...

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Valuing jobs via retirement: European evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; Fawaz, Yarine - HAL - 2009

While much has been made of the value of employment relative to unemployment, much less is known about the value of work relative to retirement. We here use two European panel datasets to first show that psychological well-being (measured on the EURO-D and GHQ scales) barely changes on average...

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Measuring well-being across Europe: Description of the ESS Well-being Module and preliminary findings

Hupper, Felicia A.; Marks, Nic; Clark, Andrew E.; … - HAL - 2008

comparable increases in happiness or life satisfaction. While much has been learned from the introduction of subjective measures … of global happiness or life satisfaction into surveys, significant recent progress in the development of high … people feel (happiness, pleasure, satisfaction) to measures which are more concerned with how well they function. This also …

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Boon or Bane? Others' unemployment, well-being and job insecurity

Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - HAL - 2008

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...

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The organisational commitment of workers in OECD countries

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2011

The degree to which workers identify with their firms, and how hard they are willing to work for them, would seem to be key variables for the understanding of both firm productivity and individual labour-market outcomes. This paper uses repeated cross-section ISSP data from 1997 and 2005 to...

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