The Origins of Happiness

Chapter 4 of unemployment over a longish spell of years. As we have seen, the BCS give us data on a person’s complete unem- ploy ...

Work and Unemployment Table 4.5. How an individual’s percentage of time unemployed up to age 30 is affected by childhood factors ...

Chapter 4 asked how they felt in each episode, along twelve dimen- sions that can be combined into a single index of good or bad ...

Work and Unemployment Equally distressing is how people experience their boss. As Table 4.7 shows, the worst time in the day for ...

Chapter 4 its workers happy, or even its customers. But there is in- creasing evidence that making workers happy and engaged doe ...

Work and Unemployment So what does make somewhere a good place to work? This is a whole subject in itself. Roughly speaking, a g ...

Chapter 4 countries. So this table offers plenty of suggestions for em- ployers who wish to improve the atmosphere at the work- ...

Work and Unemployment Conclusion If it is important to make work more enjoyable, it is even more important to make sure that tho ...

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5 Building a Family Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution yet. — Mae West Most people want a par ...

Chapter 5 In earlier times few people “lived as married”: they just got married. But in the last fifty years cohabitation has be ...

Building a Family Other things equal, partnered people are (in cross- section) happier than single people by a huge 0.8 points. ...

Chapter 5 However, we find more comprehensive evidence on fam- ily and children from the household panel data, which cover peopl ...

0.0 –0.5 –1.0 –1.5 –4 –2 0 Men Britain Women 24 + Eec t o n life -satisfa ct ion ( 0– 10 ) GermanyAustralia 0.0 –0.5 –1.0 –1.5 ...

Chapter 5 results. They are estimated in the same way as was described in the case of unemployment in Chapter 4. The results are ...

Building a Family countries. In both Britain and Australia people without partners suffer if more other people are partnered, bu ...

Chapter 5 and panel respectively). The larger household panel samples give similarly large figures for Germany, but much smaller ...

Building a Family not a lot (with huge upsides being matched by significant downsides). Causes of Partnering and Parenting If be ...

Table 5.3. How family status and parenthood are determined (British Cohort Study) Partnered (1, 0) Parent (1, 0) Units RH variab ...

Building a Family small) contributions to explaining whether you become partnered. Conclusions As we have seen, human relationsh ...