Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on subjective well-being it is possible...

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sectorspecific institutional differences in...

Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is...

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...

Das Projekt wurde im Rahmen einer Kooperation des Forschungsinstituts für Öffentliche Verwaltung bei der Deutschen Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer und des HWWA-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - Hamburg als Auftragsarbeit für die Behörde für Schule, Jugend und...

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular, job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...

Das Projekt wurde im Rahmen einer Kooperation des Forschungsinstituts für Öffentliche Verwaltung bei der Deutschen Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer und des HWWA-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - Hamburg als Auftragsarbeit für die Behörde für Schule, Jugend und...