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Andrew J. Oswald

Researcher at University of Warwick

Publications -  349
Citations -  40171

Andrew J. Oswald is an academic researcher from University of Warwick. The author has contributed to research in topics: Happiness & Unemployment. The author has an hindex of 78, co-authored 333 publications receiving 38041 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrew J. Oswald include Institute for the Study of Labor & Balliol College.

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Satisfaction and comparison income

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tried to test the hypothesis that utility depends on income relative to a "comparison" or reference level using data on 5,000 British workers and found that workers' reported satisfaction levels are inversely related to their comparison wage rates.
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Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA

TL;DR: In the United States and Great Britain, life satisfaction has run approximately flat through time in Britain this article, consistent with the Easterlin hypothesis [Nations and Households in Economic Growth: Essays in Honour of Moses Abramowitz (1974) Academic Press; J. Econ. Behav. Org., 27 (1995) 35].
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What Makes an Entrepreneur

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used various micro data sets to study entrepreneurship and found that the probability of self-employment depends positively upon whether the individual ever received an inheritance or gift, and that the self-employed report higher levels of job and life satisfaction than employees.
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Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence from Surveys of Happiness

TL;DR: Di Tella et al. as mentioned in this paper showed that the costs of inflation in terms of unemployment can be measured by the relative size of the weights attached to these variables in social well-being.