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widely reported gender happiness inequality puzzle can be explained. …A continuous and a discrete rating scale were implemented for a single item happiness question in a representative … superiority of the continuous scale. Results raise doubts about earlier inferences drawn on correlates of happiness. So far only …
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This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic … children appear to compare their actual economic status with that of their parents, deriving large satisfaction gains from an …
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their female offspring and helps to reduce the gender gap in education, as consistent with the evidence. …
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We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to …
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This paper studies the determinants and labor market consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands using direct data on the workers' actual wage requests. Our results show that most workers want a wage close to what they earned in their previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in...
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In this paper, we analyze the effect of market power on the share of females in top management positions using data from a market in which some firms have market power due to an institutionalized cartel. We investigate collegiate athletics and interpret coaches as top-level managers or chief...
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general life satisfaction question, differs between youths living in intact and non-intact families, holding many other …
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satisfaction, ceteris paribus. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between þnancial satisfaction and parental income …
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This paper studies the evolution of life satisfaction over the life course in Germany. It clarifies the causal … and time effects. The empirical part analyzes the distribution of life satisfaction over the life course at the aggregated …, subgroup and individual level. To the findings: On average, life satisfaction is mildly decreasing up to age fifty …
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an impact on regional economic development or the life satisfaction of the local population. Concerning the economic …
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