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Becoming (un)employed and life satisfaction: asymmetric effects and potential omitted variable bias in empirical happiness studies

Wolfgang Maennig Department of Economics, University of Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 5, Hamburg, 20146, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Markus Wilhelm Department of Economics, University of Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 5, Hamburg, 20146, Germany
Pages 1719-1722 | Published online: 16 Mar 2012

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