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The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
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employment status prior to entering self-employment. As performance measures we use income from self-employment, number of …. For both men and women those who enter from unemployment or inactivity are less successful in terms of income and the …
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rate and white income levels, whereas black migration should be a function of black unemployment rates and black income … per recipient (arguably because such states do less income redistribution) whereas black migrants prefer to move to higher … welfare states (where the welfare serves as a form of higher income and/or a form of higher unemployment insurance). …
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This paper examines the causality between income, unemployment and crime in 11 European countries employing the panel …. Fixed and random effect models are estimated to analyze the impact of income and unemployment on total crime and various … both income and unemployment have meaningful relationship with both aggregated and disaggregated crime. Crime exhibits …
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Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...
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-born men who were either unemployed, inactive or wage-earners in 1998. Economic outcome in 2002 is measured using income from …
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Using longitudinal income-tax registers, we study how past labour market outcomes affect current labour market … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …
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We analyse the relationship between unemployment and self-assessed health using the European Community Household Panel … such for self-assessed health. The health status of those that end up being unemployed is lower than that of the … continually employed. Hence, persons who have poor health are being selected for the pool of the unemployed. This explains why, in …
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account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Instead … through payments from people?s welfare accounts. The government would be able to redistribute income across people?s welfare … health and education services, providing social safety nets and redistributing incomes more efficiently. …
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This study estimates the effect of job loss on health for near elderly employees based on longitudinal data from the … Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control … their previous employers' business. I find that the unemployed are in worse health than employees, and that health reasons …
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