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well-being and ill-being. Using the first five waves of panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in … Australia (HILDA) Survey, we jointly model positive and negative well-being in a two-equation dynamic panel data model. We found … affect well-being and ill-being. The implication of the findings in this paper for the happiness literature is that for …
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Recent happiness studies by economists, sociologist and psychologists have produced many important new approaches and …
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The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...
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This paper proposes an index that quantifies the well-being (ill-being) of a target group as associated with its occupational segregation: that is, it assesses the gains/losses of that group which are derived from its underrepresentation in some occupations and overrepresentation in others. This...
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The paper claims that in the leaders of the Cambridge tradition of economics the issue of the 'happiness transformation … this economic tradition paid special attention to non-economic domains important for human happiness and that are affected … by market choices. Marshall is seen as the bridge between the classical reflection on happiness in the eighteenth century …
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The happiness literature provides evidence on various factors, other than money, that do seem to contribute to … individual happiness. As one explores the produced “happiness economics” literature, it is direct to understand the difficulty to … negative impact on happiness indicators. In order to add robustness to our results and to deal with endogeneity issues, this …
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Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...
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This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in seven Eastern European transition countries during the early phase … happiness in Eastern Europe. In addition, rural dwellers and church goers experience greater life- satisfaction. Aggregate … unemployment can explain more of the cross- country variation in happiness than income per capita. …
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This paper analyzes the impact of gender discrimination on individual life satisfaction using a cross-section of 66 countries. We employ measures of discrimination of women in the economy, in politics, and in society more generally. According to our results, discrimination in politics is...
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