Combatting Unemployment Richard Layard and Stephen J. Nickell Edited by Werner Eichhorst Klaus F. Zimmermann OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Contents Introduction by the Editors: • A New Understanding of Labor Market Institutions - Layard and Nickell on Labor...

The link between happiness and overall inequality is best studied using an index that incorporates different aspects of inequality, and is measured consistently in different countries. One such index is the degree to which happiness itself varies among individuals. Its correlation with both...