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Income and happiness across Europe : do reference values matter?
Caporale, G.M.; Georgellis, Y.; Tsitsianis, N.; Yin, Y.P. (2009)Using cross-sectional data from the first two rounds of the European Social Survey (ESS), we examine the relationship between income, relative income and happiness across 19 European countries. We find that a positive and ... -
Income and happiness across Europe: do reference values matter
Caporale, G.M.; Georgellis, Y.; Tsitsianis, N.; Yin, Y.P. (University of Hertfordshire, 2006)Using data from the European Social Survey (ESS), we examine the link between income and subjective well-being. We find that, for the whole sample of nineteen European countries, although income is positively correlated ... -
Pecuniary and Non-percuniary Aspects of Self-Employment Survival
Georgellis, Y.; Sessions, J.; Tsitsianis, N. (2006)We examine the factors that determine self-employment duration in Britain, paying particular attention to self-reported job satisfaction variables and non-pecuniary aspects of self-employment. Based on spell data from the ... -
Personal values as mitigating factors in the link between income and life satisfaction : evidence from the European Social Survey
Georgellis, Y.; Tsitsianis, N.; Yin, Y.P. (2009)Using data from the first two rounds of the European Social Survey, we examine the link between income, reference income and life satisfaction across Western Europe. We find that whilst there is a strong positive relationship ... -
Self-Employment Longitudinal Dynamics: A Review of the Literature
Tsitsianis, N.; Sessions, J.; Georgellis, Y. (2005)We review longitudinal studies on self-employment dynamics, classifying studies into those that examine transitions into self-employment, and those that examine self-employment exit and survival. A number of hypotheses ... -
Social capital and windfalls : empirical evidence
Georgellis, Y.; Sessions, J.; Tsitsianis, N. (2008)We examine the correlates of windfall gains amongst a sample of British respondents. Our results suggest that such gains are not random, but are significantly related to a variety of individual characteristics and traits. ... -
Windfalls, Wealth and the Transition to Self-Employment
Georgellis, Y.; Sessions, J.; Tsitsianis, N. (2005)