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Economic Shocks and Subjective Well-Being : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Hariri, Jacob Gerner - 2017

This article examines how economic shocks affect individual well-being in developing countries. Using the case of a sudden and unanticipated currency devaluation in Botswana as a quasi-experiment, the article examines how this monetary shock affects individuals' evaluations of well-being. This...

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Soft Skills or Hard Cash? The Impact of Training and Wage Subsidy Programs on Female Youth Employment in Jordan

Groh, Matthew - 2017

Throughout the Middle East, unemployment rates of educated youth have been persistently high and female labor force participation, low. This paper studies the impact of a randomized experiment in Jordan designed to assist female community college graduates find employment. One randomly chosen...

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Pathways from Jobs to Social Cohesion

Wietzke, Frank‐Borge - 2017

There is growing recognition that access to good jobs is an important driver of social cohesion. While economic dimensions of labor market outcomes are relatively well documented, evidence on the link between social cohesion and jobs is still surprisingly scarce. This paper, based on an earlier...

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Subjective Well-Being and Peaceful Uprisings

Witte, Caroline T. - 2019

reflects changes in perceived satisfaction with living standards and the ability to have a purposeful and meaningful life …

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Subjective Perceptions of the Impact of the Global Economic Crisis in Europe and Central Asia : The Household Perspective

Bidani, Benu - 2017

relevant to socio-political outcomes: the harder the impact, the lower the life satisfaction level and the more negative the …

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Life Satisfaction, Social Capital and the Bonding-Bridging Nexus

Pugno, Maurizio - 2017

The paper investigates the relation between social capital and life satisfaction focusing on the distinction between … the locus of socializing and use it to explore the relation between social capital and life satisfaction across world … bridging attitudes for life satisfaction. This suggests that the social capital dimensions important for economic growth may …

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Can Subjective Well-Being Predict Unemployment Length?

Mavridis, Dimitris - 2017

their happiness when they lose a job, but they report a smaller fall when they are surrounded by unemployed peers, an effect …

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Can Wage Subsidies Boost Employment in the Wake of an Economic Crisis? Evidence from Mexico

Bruhn, Miriam - 2017

The rise in unemployment during an economic crisis poses asignificant concern to policy makers. This paper measures the effect of a program in Mexico that granted firms in certain industries wage subsidies if they decided to keep their workers instead of letting them go during the recent...

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The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen

McKenzie, David J. - 2017

This paper evaluates a youth internship program in the Republic of Yemen that provided firms with a 50 percent subsidy to hire recent graduates of universities and vocational schools. The first round of the program took place in 2014 and required both firms and youth to apply for the program....

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Labor Drops : Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises

De Mel, Suresh - 2018

The majority of enterprises in many developing countries have no paid workers. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted in Sri Lanka that provided wage subsidies to randomly chosen microenterprises to test whether hiring additional labor would benefit such firms. In the presence of...

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