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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

Lüchinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …

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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective

D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2011

This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...

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Unhappy Working with Men? Workplace Gender Diversity and Employee Job-Related Well-Being in Britain : A WERS2004 Based Analysis

Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2009

This paper attempts to establish empirically the link between workplace gender diversity and employee job-related well-being. Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for Britain, I employ econometric techniques that account for unobserved workplace heterogeneity. I find...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764229

Happiness and Growth the World Over : Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2009

There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per …-term positive association between the growth of happiness and income, arising from fluctuations in macroeconomic conditions, with …

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Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old : An Analysis for Germany

Gwozdz, Wencke - 2009

This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older). We observe a U-shaped relationship between age...

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Life Satisfaction

Kapteyn, Arie - 2009

self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well …

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Happiness and Economic Growth : Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2009

Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic … growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective … sectional relation of happiness to GDP per capita. The point-of-time comparison leads to the expectation that the same absolute …

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Work, Jobs and Well-Being Across the Millennium

Clark, Andrew E. - 2009

This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...

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Authentic Happiness Theory Supported by Impact of Religion on Life Satisfaction : A Longitudinal Analysis with Data for Germany

Headey, Bruce - 2009

, on SWB is hard to reconcile with set-point theory. It is more in line with authentic happiness theory …

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Obesity, Unhappiness, and the Challenge of Affluence : Theory and Evidence

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009

British population view themselves as overweight, and that happiness and mental health are worse among fatter people in both …

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