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Decentralization, happiness and the perception of institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2011

Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …

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Partner (dis)agreement on moving desires and the subsequent moving behaviour of couples

Coulter, Rory; van Ham, Maarten; Feijten, Peteke - 2011

residential mobility relate moving behaviour to the housing and neighbourhood satisfaction and pre-move thoughts of individuals …

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Evidence for a 'midlife crisis' in great apes consistent with the U-shape in human well-being

Weiss, Alexander; King, James E.; Inoue-Murayama, Miho; … - 2012

Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including happiness and mental health, well-being is high in youth, falls to a nadir in midlife, and rises again in...

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Beyond GDP and back: What is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?

Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

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Never the same after the first time: the satisfaction of the second-generation self-employed

Clark, Andrew E.; Colombier, Nathalie; Masclet, David - 2008

Previous empirical work has shown that the self-employed are generally more satisfied than salaried workers. This paper contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data from the ECHP and British data from the BHPS, we investigate the domains over which this...

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Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health ofWorkers? New Evidence Using Panel Data andObjective Measures of Health

Fischer, Justina A.V.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health ofworkers using the German Socio …

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Testing for Employee Discrimination Using Matched Employer-Employee Data: Theory and Evidence

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Theodoropoulos, … - 2003

white employees have a taste for discrimination they should report lower levels of job satisfaction the larger the …

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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? : New Migrant Settlement in Australia

Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Mahuteau, Stéphane - 2004

This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different visa categories enter employment at an appropriate level to their prior education and experience in the source country. Unlike most of the earlier research in this field that...

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The (Unexpected) Structure of ?Rents? on the French and British Labour Markets

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - 2004

satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this …

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Why So Unhappy? : The Effects of Unionisation on Job Satisfaction

Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - 2005

We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart … recognition. We show that a negative association between membership and satisfaction only emerges where there is a union … effect on satisfaction. Our estimates indicate that the unobserved factors that lead to sorting across workplaces are …

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