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of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1 … data") in order to disentangle the interplay between individual, societal and regional determinants on individuals' health …
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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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Income comparisons have been found to be important for individual health. However, the literature has so far looked … health. Relative deprivation and relative satisfaction indexes are used to summarise upward and downward comparisons. Panel … impact on health. These findings hold after correcting for unobserved heterogeneity and are robust to using quasi …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … component of the data to analyse how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time. Upon their arrival …, immigrants are found to be healthier than the natives (healthy immigrant effect), but their health deteriorates over time spent …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … wide range of health behaviors (e.g. alcohol and tobacco consumption, physical activity, diet and sleep) as potential … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress and strain …
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The research on job satisfaction has a long history and is one of the most intensively studied subjects - not only in the field of industrial and organizational psychology. The various studies can roughly be classified into situational, dispositional, and hybrid approaches, depending on whether...
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Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel of the years 2001-2012, we investigate determinants of temporary agency work. Moreover, we explore possible explanations for differences between temp and regular workers as well as unemployed people regarding their work and life satisfaction....
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We estimate the relationship between changes in the body mass index (bmi) and wages or satisfaction, respectively, in a panel of German employees. In contrast to previous literature, the dynamic models indicate that there is an inverse u-shaped association between bmi and wages among young...
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To examine the influence of working hours on employees' satisfaction, this article uses a large, representative set of panel data from German households (GSOEP). The results show that high working hours and overtime in general do not lead to decreased satisfaction. Rather, increasing working...
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This paper evaluates the impact on temporary agency workers’ job satisfaction of a reform that considerably relaxed regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a difference-in-difference and matching approach and...
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