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Working Paper No. 809 | June 2014

Causal Linkages between Work and Life Satisfaction and Their Determinants in a Structural VAR Approach

Work and life satisfaction depends on a number of pecuniary and nonpecuniary factors at the workplace and determines these in turn. We analyze these causal linkages using a structural vector autoregression approach for a sample of the German working populace collected from 1984 to 2008, finding that workplace autonomy plays an important causal role in determining well-being.

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Working Paper No. 809
Associated Program:
Explorations in Theory and Empirical Analysis
Author(s):
Alex Coad Martin Binder
Related Topic(s):
German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) Job satisfaction Structural vector autoregression (SVAR) Subjective well-being

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