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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784010
analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … health estimates while satisfaction results fluctuate. Underweight women and especially underweight men tend to less …
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, job, and pay satisfaction between those who are affected by the reform according to their pre-intervention wages and those … satisfaction by 0.10 standard deviations (0.15 points on a ten-point Likert scale). Positive effects last at least until one year … after the reform. Life satisfaction tends to increase particularly in the region that is overall economically less developed …
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consider the contract type agency workers hold. This paper analyzes whether differences in job satisfaction can be explained by …, differences in job satisfaction cannot be explained by the contract type. Second, agency workers on a permanent contract are …-term contract do not differ in reported job satisfaction from regular workers on both fixed-term and permanent contracts. These …
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Well-being (i.e., satisfaction, happiness) is a latent variable, impossible to observe directly. Hence, questionnaires …
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: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction … income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study … with income is more affected by ex ante than by ex post volatility of income. The ordinal version of the Van Praag approach …
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This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …
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: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction … income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study … with income is more affected by ex ante than by ex post volatility of income. The ordinal version of the Van Praag approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018732
This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574053