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Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States
Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 5, pp. 1-30
Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on...
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Drivers of Corruption Risk and Stock Market Effects : Evidence from the Defence Industry
Krishnamurti, Chandrasekhar - 2017
Since anecdotal evidence indicates that corruption is rampant in the defence sector globally, we examine the drivers of … firm level corruption risk in the defence industry. Our empirical results indicate that visibility and shareholding are … significant drivers affecting a firm's corruption risk. Large firms and listed firms have lower corruption risk, other things …
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Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods : is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction?
Knies, Gundi; Nandi, Alita; Platt, Lucinda - 2014
Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by...
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Happiness and work
Krause, Annabelle - 2014
The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...
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Using the life satisfaction approach to value daylight savings time transitions : evidence from Britain and Germany
Kuehnle, Daniel; Wunder, Christoph - 2014
Daylight savings time (DST) represents a public good with costs and benefits. We provide the first comprehensive examination of the welfare effects of the spring and autumn transitions for the UK and Germany. Using individual-level data and a regression discontinuity design, we estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413185
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The happiness of economists : estimating the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well-being
Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - 2014
This is the first paper that studies the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well being. Based on a survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields on individual life satisfaction. Controling for personal...
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Using the life satisfaction approach to value daylight savings time transitions : evidence from Britain and Germany
Kuehnle, Daniel; Wunder, Christoph - 2015
Daylight savings time (DST) represents a public good with costs and benefits. We provide the first comprehensive examination of the welfare effects of the spring and autumn transitions for the UK and Germany. Using individual-level data and a regression discontinuity design, we estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010497055
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Self-reported satisfaction and the economic crisis of 2007 - 10 : or how people in the UK and Germany perceive a severe cyclical downturn
Mertens, Antje; Beblo, Miriam - 2013
Self-reported satisfaction measures respond to a great variety of socio-demographic characteristics as well as the job and living environment. In this paper we ask whether the recent financial market crisis has caused a deterioration of satisfaction not only for the unemployed but also for those...
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Welfare while working : how does the life satisfaction approach help to explain job search behavior?
Wolf, Tobias - 2020
This paper examines the role of life satisfactioninthe labor market behavior of workers receiving welfare benefits while working. Welfare stigma and other hard-to-observe factors may affect outcomes as on-the-job search and the duration until leaving welfare status. We utilize life satisfaction...
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Neighbourhood deprivation, life satisfaction and earnings : comparative analyses of neighbourhood effects at bespoke scales
Knies, Gundi; Melo, Patricia C.; Zhang, Min - 2020
We investigate the effect of neighbourhood deprivation on individual subjective and objective wellbeing for England and Wales. Our identification strategy combines rich longitudinal information on individual characteristics, family background and initial job conditions with panel data estimators...
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