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The happiness gains from sorting and matching in the labor market
Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2006
Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267293
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The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market
Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703809
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267660
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? Evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268746
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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271282
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700927
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700953
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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574588
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Parental Separation and Well-Being of Youths
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003
This paper uses recent data for Germany and a new outcome variable to assess the consequences of parental separation on the well-being of youths. In particular, it is considered how subjective well-being, elicited from an ordinal 11-point general life satisfaction question, differs between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261608
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Subjective Well-Being and the Family: Results from an Ordered Probit Model with Multiple Random Effects
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2004
allows to identify the intrafamily correlation in well-being. The parameters of the model can be estimated with panel data … using Maximum Marginal Likelihood. The approach is illustrated in an application using panel data for the period 1984 …-1997 from the German Socio-Economic Panel in which both inter-generational and intra-marriage correlations in well-being are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261784