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  1. Happiness and economics
    how the economy and institutions affect [human] well-being
    Autor*in: Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: 2002
    Verlag:  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ [u.a.]

    Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an ''unscientific'' concept. This is the first book to establish... mehr

     

    Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an ''unscientific'' concept. This is the first book to establish empirically the link between happiness and economics--and between happiness and democracy. Two respected economists, Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer, integrate insights and findings from psychology, where attempts to measure quality of life are well-documented, as well as from sociology and political science. They demonstrate how micro- and macro-econom

     
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    ISBN: 9781400829262
    Schlagworte: Well-being; Happiness; Economics
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

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    Part I. Setting the stage : 1. Happiness2. Well-being and economics -- 3. Personality and socio-demographic influences on happiness -- Part II. Economic effects on happiness : 4. Income -- 5. Employment -- 6. Inflation -- Part III. Political effects on happiness : 7. The current politico-economic process -- 8: Constitution: popular referenda and federalism -- 9: Outcome and process -- Part IV. Conclusions : 10. Happiness inspires economics.
  2. Transfer payment systems and financial distress: insights from health insurance premium subsidies
    Autor*in: Schmid, Christian; Schreiner, Nicolas; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: October 2020
    Verlag:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    How should payment systems of means-tested benefits be designed to improve the financial situation of needy recipients most effectively? We study this question in the context of mandatory health insurance in Switzerland, where recipients initially... mehr

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    How should payment systems of means-tested benefits be designed to improve the financial situation of needy recipients most effectively? We study this question in the context of mandatory health insurance in Switzerland, where recipients initially received either a cash transfer or subsidized insurance premiums (a form of in-kind transfer). A federal reform in 2014 forced cantons (i.e. states) to universally switch to in-kind provision. We exploit this setting based on a difference-in-differences design, analyzing rich individual-level accounting data and applying a machine learning approach to identify cash recipients prior to the reform. We find that switching from cash to in-kind transfers reduces the likelihood of late premiums payments by about 20% and of government debt collection for long-term missed payments by approximately 16%. There is no evidence for a negative spillover effect on the timely payment of the non-subsidized coinsurance bills for health services after the regime change.

     
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  3. From participants to citizens?
    democratic voting rights and naturalization behavior
    Autor*in: Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Bevelander, Pieter
    Erschienen: 2020
    Verlag:  ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    We study the causal effect of the possibility to vote on foreigners propensity to naturalize, a key indicator of successful integration. Based on Swedish administrative data and an institutional setting producing a quasi-random assignment of the... mehr

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    We study the causal effect of the possibility to vote on foreigners propensity to naturalize, a key indicator of successful integration. Based on Swedish administrative data and an institutional setting producing a quasi-random assignment of the eligibility to vote, we find that the overall effect depends on the composition of the migrant population. For immigrants from places with poor living conditions, we observe that the experience of non-citizen voting rights substantially increases their propensity to naturalize. In contrast, for those coming from places with a high standard of living, the same experience reduces it. Both reactions clearly reveal that individuals assign a positive value to formal democratic participation rights. While the behavior of the former group is likely dominated by the motivational force inherent in the possibility to participate, the behavior of the latter group reflects the devaluation of formal citizienship if it is decoupled from democratic rights.

     
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  4. Parental unemployment, social insurance and child well-being across countries
    Autor*in: Hansen, Kerstin F.; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: September 2020
    Verlag:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    Based on a unique repeated cross-sectional data set of school-aged children in Europe, the Middle East and North America, we analyze how children's subjective well-being is related to parents' employment status, depending on the institutional... mehr

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    Based on a unique repeated cross-sectional data set of school-aged children in Europe, the Middle East and North America, we analyze how children's subjective well-being is related to parents' employment status, depending on the institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across countries and years. The effect is thereby moderated by the generosity of unemployment benefits. Exploiting across- and within-country variation, our results suggest that a higher benefit replacement rate alleviates the negative effects of fathers', but not mothers', unemployment. We further test the robustness of our results considering unemployment benefits jointly with social work norms. While the buffering effect of unemployment insurance remains, the spillover effects of paternal unemployment seem to be more pronounced in environments with stricter social work norms.

     
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  5. Does the dream of home ownership rest upon biased beliefs?
    a test based on predicted and realized life satisfaction
    Autor*in: Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: July 2020
    Verlag:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    The belief that home ownership makes people happy is probably one of the most widespread intuitive theories of happiness. However, whether it is accurate is an open question. Based on individual panel data, we explore whether home buyers... mehr

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    The belief that home ownership makes people happy is probably one of the most widespread intuitive theories of happiness. However, whether it is accurate is an open question. Based on individual panel data, we explore whether home buyers systematically overestimate the life satisfaction associated with living in their privately owned property. To identify potential prediction errors, we compare people's forecasts of their life satisfaction in five years' time with their current realizations. We find that, while moving into a purchased dwelling is associated with higher life satisfaction, people systematically overestimate the long-term satisfaction gain. The misprediction therein is driven by people who follow extrinsically-oriented life goals, highlighting biased beliefs regarding own preferences as a relevant mechanism in the prediction errors.

     
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  6. The consequences of hosting asylum seekers for citizens' policy preferences
    Autor*in: Zimmermann, Severin; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: March 2021
    Verlag:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    Asylum migration is a major societal challenge in the Western world affecting residents' policy preferences. We analyze the effects of newly hosting asylum seekers in a given municipality on local citizens' preferences in terms of migratory and... mehr

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    Asylum migration is a major societal challenge in the Western world affecting residents' policy preferences. We analyze the effects of newly hosting asylum seekers in a given municipality on local citizens' preferences in terms of migratory and redistributive policies as well as of support or opposition to political change in general. Policy preferences are measured based on citizens' actual voting behavior in national referendums in Switzerland between 1987 and 2017. We exploit the administrative placement of asylum seekers across municipalities and find that citizens vote temporarily slightly more restrictively on immigration issues in national referendums and are less supportive of redistribution than before hosting asylum seekers. Citizens are not more likely to vote for the status quo and not more likely to participate per se.

     
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    Schriftenreihe: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 14159
    Schlagworte: asylum seekers; direct democracy; political preferences; pro-immigration attitudes; redistribution; status quo effect; voter participation
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  7. Happiness and public policy
    a procedural perspective
    Autor*in: Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: September 2019
    Verlag:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should... mehr

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    This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented towards a decision rule maximizing some aggregate measure of subjective well-being. This social engineering perspective, implicit in much reasoning about well-being policy, neglects i) important motivation problems on the part of government actors, such as incentives to manipulate indicators, but also on the part of citizens to truthfully report their well-being, and ii) procedural utility as a source of well-being. Instead, well-being research should be oriented towards gaining insights that improve the diagnoses of societal problems and help to evaluate alternative institutional arrangements to address them, both as inputs into the democratic process.

     
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    Schriftenreihe: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 12622
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  8. Does public attention reduce the influence of moneyed interests?
    policy positions on SOPA/PIPA before and after the internet blackout
    Autor*in: Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: May 2019
    Verlag:  Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Basel, Switzerland

    We investigate the role of public attention in determining the effect that campaign contributions by interest groups have on legislators' policy positions. We exploit the shock in public attention induced by the Internet service blackout of January... mehr

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    We investigate the role of public attention in determining the effect that campaign contributions by interest groups have on legislators' policy positions. We exploit the shock in public attention induced by the Internet service blackout of January 2012 that increased the salience of the SOPA/PIPA bills aimed at stronger protection of property rights on the Internet. Using a new dataset of U.S. congressmen's public statements, we find a strong statistical relationship between campaign contributions funded by the affected industries and legislators' positions. However, this relationship evaporates once the two bills become primary policy issues. Our results are consistent with the notion that legislators choose positions on secondary policy issues in order to cater to organized interests, whereas positions on primary policy issues are driven by electoral support.

     
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  9. Rain, emotions and voting for the status quo
    Autor*in: Meier, Armando N.; Schmid, Lukas; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: August 2019
    Verlag:  Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Basel, Switzerland

    Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by rain and analyze data on more than 870,000 municipal vote outcomes in Switzerland to address this question. The empirical tests... mehr

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    Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by rain and analyze data on more than 870,000 municipal vote outcomes in Switzerland to address this question. The empirical tests are based on administrative ballot outcomes and individual postvote survey data. We find that rain decreases the share of votes for political change. Our robustness checks suggest that this finding is not driven by changes in the composition of the electorate and changes in information acquisition. In addition, we provide evidence that rain might have altered the outcome of several high-stake votes. We discuss the psychological mechanism and document that rain reduces the willingness to take risks, a pattern that is consistent with the observed reduction in the support for change.

     
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  10. Television market size and political accountability in the US house of representatives
    Autor*in: Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: May 2022
    Verlag:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    This paper examines the role of local TV market structure in US congressional politics, exploiting variation in the overlaps of political markets and TV markets. Local TV stations are hypothesized to report relatively more per US House representative... mehr

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    This paper examines the role of local TV market structure in US congressional politics, exploiting variation in the overlaps of political markets and TV markets. Local TV stations are hypothesized to report relatively more per US House representative in less populous markets (where the number of House districts covered is smaller), leading to better informed voters and more accountable representatives. We find that smaller markets are indeed associated with (i) higher coverage of representatives, and (ii) a higher level of voters' knowledge about their representatives. However, (iii) representatives of smaller and more congruent markets are only more likely to decide aligned with their constituents' policy preferences in highly competitive districts. This evidence suggests that local political news coverage on TV serves as a complement rather than a substitute in holding members of the US Congress accountable.

     
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    Schlagworte: political accountability; market congruence; media coverage; TV markets; legislative voting; US Congress; voter knowledge; campaign finance
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  11. Power sharing at the local level
    evidence on opting-in for non-citizen voting rights
    Autor*in: Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: November 2019
    Verlag:  Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Basel, Switzerland

    The enfranchisement of foreigners is likely one of the most controversial frontiers of institutional change in developed democracies, which are experiencing an increasing number of non-citizen residents. We study the conditions under which citizens... mehr

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    The enfranchisement of foreigners is likely one of the most controversial frontiers of institutional change in developed democracies, which are experiencing an increasing number of non-citizen residents. We study the conditions under which citizens are willing to share power. To this end, we exploit the unique setting of the Swiss canton of Grisons, where municipalities are free to decide on the introduction of non-citizen voting rights at the local level (a so called opting-in regime). Consistent with the power dilution hypothesis, we find that enfranchisement is less likely the larger the share of resident foreigners. Moreover, municipalities with a large language/cultural minority are less likely to formally involve foreigners. In contrast, municipality mergers seem to act as an institutional catalyst, promoting democratic reforms. A supplementary panel analysis on electoral support for an opting-in regime in the canton of Zurich also backs the power dilution hypothesis, showing that a larger share of foreigners reduces support for a regime change.

     
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  12. Blood donations and incentives
    evidence from a field experiment
    Autor*in: Götte, Lorenz; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: November 2019
    Verlag:  Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Basel, Switzerland

    There is a longstanding concern that material rewards might undermine pro-social motivations, thereby leading to a decrease in blood donations. This paper provides an empirical test of how material rewards affect blood donations in a three-month... mehr

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    There is a longstanding concern that material rewards might undermine pro-social motivations, thereby leading to a decrease in blood donations. This paper provides an empirical test of how material rewards affect blood donations in a three-month large-scale field experiment and a fifteen-month follow-up period, involving more than 10,000 previous donors. We examine the efficacy of a lottery ticket as a reward vis-à-vis a standard invitation, an appeal, and a free cholesterol test. The offer of a lottery ticket, on average, increases the probability to donate blood during the experiment by 5.6 percentage points over a baseline donation rate of 46 percent. We find that this effect is driven by less motivated donors. Moreover, no reduction in donations is observed after the experiment.

     
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  13. Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
    Autor*in: Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: April 2020
    Verlag:  Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Basel, Switzerland

    We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Based on 425 roll calls between 2005 and 2014 in the US House of Representatives, we show... mehr

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    We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Based on 425 roll calls between 2005 and 2014 in the US House of Representatives, we show that representatives are more likely to vote with special interests and against constituency interests when the two are in conflict. Importantly, the latter effect is significantly larger when there is less attention on politics due to exogenous newsworthy events. The opportunistic behavior seems not to be mediated by short-term scheduling of sensitive votes right after distracting events.

     
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  14. Experiencing booms and busts in the welfare state and support for redistribution
    Autor*in: Hansen, Kerstin F.; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: April 2021
    Verlag:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We analyze how the exposure to adverse macroeconomic conditions during the "impressionable years" (i.e., between the age of 18 and 25), in interaction with welfare state institutions, forms political attitudes in adulthood. Based on a large panel... mehr

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    We analyze how the exposure to adverse macroeconomic conditions during the "impressionable years" (i.e., between the age of 18 and 25), in interaction with welfare state institutions, forms political attitudes in adulthood. Based on a large panel dataset of European countries, we find that individuals who experienced high unemployment under a regime of low unemployment benefits are more in favor of redistribution later in life and state an orientation more oriented towards the left. However, negative economic shocks in an environment with a very generous unemployment insurance are related to less support of redistribution and a more rightist political attitude later on. The development of the welfare state thus seems crucial for how economic shocks affect the evolution of preferences and norms in society and thus finally feedback on institutional change.

     
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    Schlagworte: macroeconomic experiences; impressionable years; support for redistribution; unemployment; unemployment insurance
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  15. Outcome, process & power in direct democracy
    new econometric results
    Autor*in: Frey, Bruno S.; Kucher, Marcel; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: 1999
    Verlag:  Center for Economic Studies, Ifo-Inst., Munich

    Based on survey data for Switzerland, new empirical findings on direct democracy are presented. In the first part, we show that, on average, public employees receive lower financial compensation under more direct democratic institutions. However, top... mehr

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    Based on survey data for Switzerland, new empirical findings on direct democracy are presented. In the first part, we show that, on average, public employees receive lower financial compensation under more direct democratic institutions. However, top bureaucrats are more constrained in direct democracies and have to be compensated by higher wages for that loss of power. In the second part, we demonstrate that reported subjective well-being of the population is much higher in jurisdictions with stronger direct democratic rights. This is not only the case because people value political outcomes higher but they derive utility from the political process itself.

     
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    Schlagworte: Demokratie; Schätzung; Vergütungssystem im öffentlichen Dienst; Lohnstruktur; Lebensqualität; Öffentliche Meinung; Schweiz; Politische Willensbildung; Lebenszufriedenheit
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  16. Outcome, process & power in direct democracy
    new econometric results
    Autor*in: Frey, Bruno S.; Kucher, Marcel; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: 1999
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  17. The role of social work norms in job searching and subjective well being
    Autor*in: Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael
    Erschienen: 2001
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    Schriftenreihe: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; No. 300
    Schlagworte: Stellensuche; Lebensqualität; Arbeitsethik; Wert; Arbeitslosigkeit; Verweildauer; Schätzung; Zufriedenheit
    Weitere Schlagworte: (stw)Arbeitsuche; (stw)Lebensqualität; (stw)Arbeitsethik; (stw)Soziale Werte; (stw)Arbeitslosigkeit; (stw)Dauer; (stw)Schätzung; (stw)Schweiz; (stw)Zufriedenheit; Lebenszufriedenheit; Arbeitspapier; Graue Literatur
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  18. Tobacco sales prohibition and teen smoking
    Autor*in: Meier, Armando N.; Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: March 2019
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    We evaluate one of the most prevalent prohibitory policies: banning the sales of tobacco to teens. We exploit the staggered introduction of sales bans across Switzerland and the European Union from 1990 to 2016. The estimates indicate a less than 1... mehr

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    We evaluate one of the most prevalent prohibitory policies: banning the sales of tobacco to teens. We exploit the staggered introduction of sales bans across Switzerland and the European Union from 1990 to 2016. The estimates indicate a less than 1 percentage point reduction in teen smoking because of the bans. The reduction is substantially lower than the 5 percentage point reduction expected by health officials. We examine additional outcomes relevant to assessing any prohibitory policy. We find that teens circumvent the bans through peers. Moreover, they consider smokers less cool but do not think smoking is more dangerous.

     
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  19. Overstrained citizens?
    the number of ballot propositions and the quality of the decision process in direct democracy
    Autor*in: Stutzer, Alois; Baltensperger, Michael; Meier, Armando N.
    Erschienen: June 2019
    Verlag:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from Switzerland with... mehr

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    We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from Switzerland with over 3,500 propositions, we exploit variation in the number of federal and cantonal propositions. Voters know the most about the content of federal propositions when they are exclusively presented and less with a high number of concurrent cantonal propositions on the ballot. Across other outcomes we find no consistent indications that – for the observed variation in the exposure to popular votes – a high number of propositions impedes the quality of decision making in Swiss federal direct democracy. In the medium to longer term, more federal propositions on the ballot rather relate to higher perceived political influence and satisfaction with democracy.

     
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  20. Are asylum seekers more likely to work with more inclusive labor market access regulations?
    Autor*in: Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Uhlig, Roman
    Erschienen: 2019
    Verlag:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as in the long term. However, little is known... mehr

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    In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as in the long term. However, little is known about the policies that foster or hamper their participation in the labor market, in particular during the important initial period of their stay in the host country. In order to evaluate whether inclusive labor market policies increase the labor market participation of asylum seekers, we exploit the variation in asylum policies in Swiss cantons to which asylum seekers are as good as randomly allocated. During our study period from 2011 to 2014, the employment rate among asylum seekers varied between 0% and 30.2% across cantons. Our results indicate that labor market access regulations are responsible for a substantial proportion of these differences, in which an inclusive regime increases participation by 11 percentage points. The marginal effects are larger for asylum seekers who speak a language that is linguistically close to the one in their host canton.

     
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  21. Blood donations and incentives
    evidence from a field experiment
    Autor*in: Götte, Lorenz; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: 16 April 2019
    Verlag:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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  22. The deterrent effect of an anti-minaret vote on foreigners' location choices
    Autor*in: Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: 2019
    Verlag:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht

    In a national ballot in 2009, Swiss citizens surprisingly approved an amendment to the Swiss constitution to ban the further construction of minarets. The ballot outcome manifested reservations and anti-immigrant attitudes in regions of Switzerland... mehr

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    In a national ballot in 2009, Swiss citizens surprisingly approved an amendment to the Swiss constitution to ban the further construction of minarets. The ballot outcome manifested reservations and anti-immigrant attitudes in regions of Switzerland which had previously been hidden. We exploit this fact as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners' location choices and thus indirectly on their utility. Based on a regression discontinuity design with unknown discontinuity points and administrative data on the population of foreigners, we find that the probability of their moving to a municipality which unexpectedly expressed stronger reservations decreases initially by about 40 percent. The effect is accompanied by a drop of housing prices in these municipalities and levels off over a period of about 5 months. Moreover, foreigners in high-skill occupations react relatively more strongly highlighting a tension when countries try to attract well-educated professionals from abroad.

     
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  23. The role of social work norms in job searching and subjective well-being
    Autor*in: Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael
    Erschienen: 2001
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    Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that... mehr

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    Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The stronger the norm, the more quickly unemployed people find a new job. This behavior can be explained by utility differences, probably due to social pressure. Unemployed people are significantly less happy than employed people and their reduction in life satisfaction is the larger, the stronger the norm is.

     
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    Schlagworte: Arbeitsuche; Lebensqualität; Arbeitsethik; Soziale Werte; Arbeitslosigkeit; Dauer; Schätzung; Schweiz; Zufriedenheit
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  24. Beyond Bentham - measuring procedural utility
    Autor*in: Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: 2001
    Verlag:  Univ., Center for Economic Studies, Munich

    We propose that outcome utility and process utility can be distinguished and empirically measured. People gain procedural utility from participating in the political decision-making process itself, irrespective of the outcome. Nationals enjoy both... mehr

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    We propose that outcome utility and process utility can be distinguished and empirically measured. People gain procedural utility from participating in the political decision-making process itself, irrespective of the outcome. Nationals enjoy both outcome and process utility, while foreigners are excluded from political decision-making and therefore cannot enjoy the corresponding procedural utility. Utility is measured by individuals' reported subjective well-being or happiness. We find that participation rights provide more procedural utility in terms of a feeling of self-determination and influence than actual participation.

     
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    Schlagworte: Lebensqualität; Nutzen; Partizipation; Bürgerbeteiligung; Schweiz
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  25. Happiness, economy and institutions
    Autor*in: Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois
    Erschienen: 2000
    Verlag:  Univ., Center for Economic Studies, Munich

    A cross-regional econometric analysis suggests that institutional factors in the form of direct democracy (via initiative and referenda) and of federal structure (local autonomy) systematically and sizeably raise self-reported individual well-being.... mehr

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    A cross-regional econometric analysis suggests that institutional factors in the form of direct democracy (via initiative and referenda) and of federal structure (local autonomy) systematically and sizeably raise self-reported individual well-being. This positive effect can be attributed to political outcomes closerto voters preferences, as well as to the procedural utility of political participation. Moreover, the results of "standard" microeconometric well-being functions previously published for other countries are generally supported. Unemployment has a strongly depressing effect on happiness. A higher income level raises happiness, however, only to a small extent.

     
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    Schlagworte: Lebensqualität; Sozialer Indikator; Demokratie; Kommunale Selbstverwaltung; Arbeitslosigkeit; Einkommen; Schätzung; Schweiz; Zufriedenheit
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