There is a considerable amount of research on the effect of income on happiness, but only a
limited number of studies have considered how the spending of income works out on one's …

Public Employment Services vary widely across the world in terms of history, structures and
capacities, as well as the national labor market context in which they operate. In order to …

The automation and out-sourcing of routine, codifiable tasks are seen as driving polarization
in labor markets in high-income countries. This paper first offers several explanations for …

Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many
individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and flexibility it brings. Using …

A large share of the workforce throughout the developing world is self-employed, and this
proportion has increased in recent decades. Assessments of this development vary, with pull …

Using a unique survey data set this paper documents a positive effect of self-employment in
farming on subjective well-being. This direct effect is only partly offset by negative, indirect …

Rchoice is a package in R for estimating models with individual heterogeneity for both cross-
sectional and panel (longitudinal) data. In particular, the package allows binary, ordinal and …

This article estimates the individuals' non-pecuniary benefit of engaging in pro–
environmental behaviors (PEB) using a large sample from Ecuador. As a novelty, we …

In this paper we analyze the evidence of job polarization—the relative decline of mid-wage
jobs—in developing and emerging economies. We carry out an extensive literature review …

Why unemployment has heterogeneous effects on subjective well-being remains a hot topic.
Using German Socio-Economic Panel data, this paper finds significant heterogeneity using …