Subjective Well-Being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location

In this paper, we investigate the formative mechanism of the Easterlin paradox in China using 2010 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data. By establishing a multifactor, multi-level dynamic framework, we unveil the formative mechanism of the Easterlin paradox. The impact of multiple factors on subjective well-being and the influence of micro-level individual factors conditional on macroeconomic development were analyzed. We find that with economic growth, on the one hand, material needs upgraded to enjoyment needs, and the return to well-being from material conditions decreased. On the other hand, the intensity of social inequality triggered relative deprivation, offsetting the return from economic growth. Therefore, subjective well-being stagnated, instead of increasing with economic growth.

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The Influence of Flexible Employment on Workers’ Wellbeing: Evidence From Chinese General Social Survey

Liu

Qian²,

Jiang

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Based on the 2017 China General Social Survey data, with 5,439 observations as research objects, this paper empirically tests the impact of flexible employment on workers’ wellbeing and introduces labor income as mediator and social security as moderator to explore the mechanism of action. The empirical results show that: flexible employment has an inverted U-shaped relationship with workers’ wellbeing, which indicates that increasing employments’ flexibility will first rise and then reduce their perceived subjective wellbeing after reaching the peak; labor income plays a mediating role in the relationship of flexible employment and wellbeing of workers; social security moderates the mediating effect of labor income whereas the moderating role in the relationship between flexible employment and workers’ wellbeing is not observed. Implications and future development of flexible employment are discussed.

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Subjective Well-Being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location

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