This paper attempts to test the hypothesis that utility depends on income relative to a ‘comparison’
or reference level. Using data on 5,000 British workers, it provides two findings. First, …

The well-known Easterlin paradox points out that average happiness has remained constant
over time despite sharp rises in GNP per head. At the same time, a micro literature has …

It is generally believed that job satisfaction increases linearly with age. However, there are
persuasive arguments, and some empirical evidence, that the relationship is U‐shaped, …

A 2.91-billion base pair (bp) consensus sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human
genome was generated by the whole-genome shotgun sequencing method. The 14.8-billion …

Most people agree that unemployment in the Western economies is worryingly high. Before
they can design economic policies to try to do something about it, however, politicians and …

The COVID-19 pandemic and government intervention such as lockdowns may severely affect
people’s mental health. While lockdowns can help to contain the spread of the virus, they …

We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals
tend to return to some baseline level of well‐being after life and labour market events? …

Little recent empirical work in economics or industrial relations has examined job
satisfaction, despite its demonstrated correlation with labour market behaviour such as quits, …

This paper uses labour market spell data from the first seven waves of the British Household
Panel Survey (BHPS) to model separations and quits. Three main results emerge. First, job …

… Andrew G. Clark …