Trading Up the Happiness Ladder

Dluhosch, Barbara; Horgos, Daniel

doi:10.1007/s11205-012-0122-9

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“…Di Tella et al (2001; 2003) show that temporary fluctuations in LS are correlated with macroeconomic circumstances measured by gross domestic product, unemployment and inflation. These results have been confirmed repeatedly (Dluhosch and Horgos, 2013; Blanchflower et al , 2014; Akay et al , 2017). The event of job loss is negatively related to the experience of well-being (e.g.…”

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Life satisfaction of employees, labour market tightness and matching efficiency

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2020

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PurposeDi Tella et al. (2001) show that temporary fluctuations in life satisfaction (LS) are correlated with macroeconomic circumstances such as gross domestic product, unemployment and inflation. In this paper, we bring attention to labour market measures from search and matching models (Pissarides 2000).Design/methodology/approachOur analysis follows the two-stage estimation strategy used in Di Tella et al. (2001) to explore sectoral unemployment levels, labour market tightness and matching efficiency as LS determinants. In the first stage, we use a large sample of individual data collected from a continuous web survey during the 2007–2014 period in the Netherlands to obtain regression-adjusted measures of LS by quarter and economic sector. In the second-stage, we regress LS measures against the unemployment level, labour market tightness and matching efficiency.FindingsOur results are threefold. First, the negative link between unemployment and an employee's LS is confirmed at the sectoral level. Second, labour market tightness, measured as the number of vacancies per job-seeker rather than the number of vacancies per unemployed, is shown to be relevant to the LS of workers. Third, labour market matching efficiency affects the LS of workers differently when they are less satisfied with their job and in temporary employment.Originality/valueNo evidence of this relationship has been documented before. Our results give support to government interventions aimed at activating demand for labour, improving the matching of job-seekers to vacant jobs and reducing information frictions by supporting match-making technologies.

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Life satisfaction of employees, labour market tightness and matching efficiency

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“…Di Tella et al (2001; show that temporary fluctuations in LS are correlated with macroeconomic circumstances measured by gross domestic product, unemployment, and inflation. These results have been confirmed repeatedly (Dluhosch and Horgos 2013;Blanchflower et al 2014;Akay et al 2017). The event of job loss is negatively related to the experience of well-being (e.g.…”

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Life Satisfaction of Employees, Labour Market Tightness and Matching Efficiency

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“…Because the empirical measurement of trade policy is intensively discussed in the economic literature (see, e.g., Anderson and Neary 1994;Rose 2004;Dluhosch and Horgos 2013) it is necessary to test whether our results also hold when including alternative proxies for trade policy. Notably, our results are invariant to the particular trade freedom index that is being used: Table 6 To prove that results do not primarily depend on the specific logit estimator that is used for the regressions presented above, we additionally estimate the whole set of regressions using probit estimations.…”

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International Competition Intensified: Job Satisfaction Sacrificed?

Dluhosch

Horgos

2018

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Zusammenfassung / AbstractThere has been an intense debate as to the effects of offshoring and global value chains on labor, with the debate centering around possible negative employment and income effects for the low(er) skilled in advanced economies. Although sociological and psychological research has shown that income falls far too short when it comes to subjective well-being (SWB), the globalization's impact on SWB has been surprisingly under-researched. This applies in particular to job satisfaction, including of those negatively affected by seeing their real income depressed. Against this backdrop, we develop a trade model that is capable of capturing job satisfaction in conjunction with the income and distributional effects of offshoring. Contrary to a great many beliefs, our theoretical considerations suggest that those remaining employed may be more satisfied with their jobs, even if suffering from increased competition and from more tasks being offshored. Running a cross-section logistic regression model that combines information on offshoring and job satisfaction, lends support to our theoretical explanations. Accordingly, job satisfaction is on average rated higher in countries with comparatively high offshoring activities. More disaggregated regressions get to the heart of the matter, which is a change in the characteristics of the remaining jobs. Our results stand up to extensive robustness checks with respect to different specifications, measures of globalization, and even when controlling for many of the usually suspected variables with reference to SWB.JEL-Klassifikation / JEL-Classification: F66, I31

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Trading Up the Happiness Ladder

Cited by 18 publications

References 73 publications

Life satisfaction of employees, labour market tightness and matching efficiency

Life satisfaction of employees, labour market tightness and matching efficiency

Life Satisfaction of Employees, Labour Market Tightness and Matching Efficiency

International Competition Intensified: Job Satisfaction Sacrificed?

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