Income, Happiness, and the Disutility of Labour
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- Knabe, Andreas & Rätzel, Steffen, 2010. "Income, happiness, and the disutility of labour," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 107(1), pages 77-79, April.
- Knabe, Andreas & Rätzel, Steffen, 2009. "Income, happiness, and the disutility of labor," Discussion Papers 2009/12, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
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Keywords
Happiness; Life Satisfaction; Income; Working Hours;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HAP-2009-05-16 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-LAB-2009-05-16 (Labour Economics)
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