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Open AccessThe influence of CEO compensation on employee engagement
The soaring compensation levels of chief executive officers (CEOs) have spurred an intense debate about its outcomes. This paper examines an understudied outcome in this regard: employee engagement. Using a dy...
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Open AccessCharacterizing Hope: An Interdisciplinary Overview of the Characteristics of Hope
What we hope for has a large impact on how we feel and behave. Research on the determinants and effects of a hopeful disposition is increasing in several academic fields, such as psychology, nursing and organi...
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Open AccessHappy but Unequal: Differences in Subjective Well-Being across Individuals and Space in Colombia
Despite being on average a relatively happy country, Colombia has a high level of inequality in subjective well-being (SWB). Using Gallup World Poll data for the period from 2010 to 2018, this paper tests the ...
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Open AccessThe Relations between Hope and Subjective Well-Being: a Literature Overview and Empirical Analysis
How we perceive the future can greatly affect how we feel in the present. Even a currently positive situation is hard to bear when we know the future will be grim. Indeed, previous research has found that more...
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Open AccessHope Mediates the Relation between Income and Subjective Well-Being
In this study, we examine whether the positive effect of income gains on subjective well-being (SWB) can in part be explained by the improved future prospects that are generated by a more solid financial situa...
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Open AccessDifference in mood at work and home. An additional indicator of job satisfaction
New techniques for multiple moment assessment allow us to assess how people feel at different times of the day. These techniques are mostly used to assess how well people feel during particular activities, suc...
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Open AccessUnpacking the Quantifying and Qualifying Potential of Semi-Open Job Satisfaction Questions through Computer-Aided Sentiment Analysis
Despite their suitability for mitigating survey biases and their potential for enhancing information richness, open and semi-open job satisfaction questions are rarely used in surveys. This is mostly due to th...
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Open AccessRaise of Happiness Following Raised Awareness of How Happy One Feels: A Follow-Up of Repeated Users of the Happiness Indicator Website
The Happiness Indicator (https://www.happinessindicator.com) is an online tool designed to make people more aware of their own happiness. The theory behind the website is that a keener awareness of one’s own h...
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Open AccessHappy Free Willies? Investigating the relationship between freelancing and subjective well-being
In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the number of own-account workers (the self-employed without employees), including freelancers, in many developed economies. Despite the importance of the g...
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Open AccessThe Role of Positive Expectations for Resilience to Adverse Events: Subjective Well-Being Before, During and After the Greek Bailout Referendum
Can positive expectations help foster resiliency against adversity? In this study, we used high-frequency panel data, to examine how positive as compared to neutral and negative expectations can buffer the neg...
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Hope in Economics
As a topic of research in economics, hope has not been very prevalent. Following the neo-classical paradigm, economists have tended to focus on rationality, self-interest, and universals. A normative and subje...
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Examining Spatial Structure Using Gravity Models
In this chapter, we discuss the use of gravity models in the study of spatial structure. Using the recent discussion on functional polycentricity as a background, we argue that the gravity model approach has o...
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Effect on Happiness of Happiness Self-monitoring and Comparison with Others: Using the Happiness Indicator
The Happiness Indicator (www.happinessindicator.nl) is a website containing self-help tools designed to make people more aware of their own happiness. The theory behind ...
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How Does More Attention to Subjective Well-Being Affect Subjective Well-Being?
There is an ongoing debate as to whether pursuing happiness is beneficial for people’s subjective well-being (SWB). To address this question, we tested whether attention to SWB – measured by participation in S...
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Commuting and Happiness: What Ways Feel Best for What Kinds of People?
How happy we are, depends partly on how we live our life and part of our way of life is how we commute between home and work. In that context, we are faced with the question of how much time spent on commuting...
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Modeling knowledge networks in economic geography: a discussion of four methods
The importance of network structures for the transmission of knowledge and the diffusion of technological change has been recently emphasized in economic geography. Since network structures drive the innovativ...
