Wellbeing – wie Lebensqualität, Arbeit und Einkommen zusammenhängen
Das Streben nach Glück ist ein zentrales Element im Leben, wobei das individuelle Wohlbefinden sowohl persönliche als auch gesellschaftliche Ursachen hat. Welchen Einfluss haben Wirtschaftsentwicklung, Einkommen, der berufliche Werdegang oder Arbeitslosigkeitserfahrungen auf die subjektive Lebensqualität eines Menschen?
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Literaturhinweis
Life cycle happiness and its sources intersections of psychology, economics, and demography (2006)
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Easterlin, Richard A. (2006): Life cycle happiness and its sources intersections of psychology, economics, and demography. In: Journal of economic psychology, Jg. 27, H. 4, S. 463-482.
Abstract
"In the United States happiness rises slightly, on average, from ages 18 to midlife, and declines slowly thereafter. This pattern for the total population is the net result of disparate trends in the satisfaction people get from various life domains: their financial situation, family life, health, and work. The slight rise in happiness through midlife is due chiefly to growing satisfaction with one's family life and work, which together more than offset decreasing satisfaction with health. Beyond midlife, happiness edges downward as a continuing decline in satisfaction with health is joined by diminishing satisfaction with one's family situation and work; these negative trends are offset considerably, however, by a sizeable upturn in later life in people's satisfaction with their financial situation. These findings come from an analysis of the United States General Social Surveys, using the demographer's synthetic panel technique. They support neither the mainstream economics view that well-being depends only on one's objective conditions nor the psychologists' strong setpoint model in which adaptation to such conditions is rapid and complete. They are consistent with a 'bottom up' model in which happiness is the net outcome of both objective and subjective factors in various life domains." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Objektive regionale Lebensqualität und subjektives Wohlbefinden: was macht Bürgerinnen und Bürger zufrieden? (2006)
Kawka, Rupert; Sturm, Gabriele;Zitatform
Kawka, Rupert & Gabriele Sturm (2006): Objektive regionale Lebensqualität und subjektives Wohlbefinden. Was macht Bürgerinnen und Bürger zufrieden? In: Informationen zur Raumentwicklung H. 6/7, S. 309-316 u. 979.
Abstract
"Der Artikel geht der Frage nach, welchen Stellenwert das aus dem Grundgesetz abgeleitete Ziel der Gleichwertigkeit der Lebensverhältnisse in allen Teilräumen der Bundesrepublik in der Raumordnung und der sie gestaltenden Politik gehabt hat und weiterhin hat. Er wirft des weiteren die Frage auf, ob Gleichwertigkeit angesichts der neuen Rahmenbedingungen noch als ein ubiquitär zu verfolgendes Ziel zu sehen ist oder ob es nicht eher im Sinne einer Gewährung von gleichen Chance für den Einzelnen gesehen werden muss, jenseits und unabhängig von einer möglichen, räumlich ubiquitär zu verordneten Umsetzung." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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The happiness gains from sorting and matching in the labor market (2006)
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Luechinger, Simon, Alois Stutzer & Rainer Winkelmann (2006): The happiness gains from sorting and matching in the labor market. (IZA discussion paper 2019), Bonn, 35 S.
Abstract
"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 possible to assess these latter gains from matching. We introduce a two-equation ordered probit model with endogenous switching and study self-selection into government and private sector jobs. We find considerable gains from matching amounting to an increase in the fraction of very satisfied workers from 53.8 to 58.8 percent relative to a hypothetical random allocation of workers to the two sectors." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Happiness, satisfaction and socio-economic conditions: some international evidence (2006)
Peiro, Amado;Zitatform
Peiro, Amado (2006): Happiness, satisfaction and socio-economic conditions. Some international evidence. In: The Journal of Socio-Economics, Jg. 35, H. 2, S. 348-365. DOI:10.1016/j.socec.2005.11.042
Abstract
"The paper examines the relationships between socio-economic conditions and happiness or satisfaction of individuals in 15 countries. In agreement with earlier studies, age, health and marital status are strongly associated with happiness and satisfaction. In seeming contrast with other studies, unemployment does not appear to be associated with happiness, although it is clearly associated with satisfaction. Income is also strongly associated with satisfaction, but its association with happiness is weaker. These results point to happiness and satisfaction as two distinct spheres of well-being. While the first would be relatively independent of economic factors, the second would be strongly dependent." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being (2004)
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Stutzer, Alois & Rafael Lalive (2004): The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being. In: Journal of the European Economic Association, Jg. 2, H. 4, S. 696-719. DOI:10.1162/1542476041423331
Abstract
"Social norms are usually neglected in economics because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, the authors offer a direct measure of the social norm to live off one's own income and they show that this norm has important economic effects. The stronger the norm, the more quickly unemployed people find a new job. This behavior can be explained by utility differences, probably due to social pressure. Unemployed people are significantly less happy than employed people and their reduction in life satisfaction is the larger, the stronger the norm is." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))