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Workplace environmental conditions and life satisfaction in Spain

Inmaculada García-Mainar, +2 more
- 01 Nov 2015 - 
- Vol. 119, Iss: 119, pp 136-146
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In this article, the authors examined the impact on life satisfaction of self-perceived levels of air and noise pollution in the workplace and provided a monetary valuation of these environmental conditions, using the life-satisfaction approach.
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This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2015-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Environmental pollution & Life satisfaction.

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Quantitative relationships between occupant satisfaction and satisfaction aspects of indoor environmental quality and building design

Monika Joanna Frontczak, +5 more
- 01 Jan 2012 - 
TL;DR: Frontczak et al. as mentioned in this paper examined which subjectively evaluated indoor environmental parameters and building features mostly affect occupants' satisfaction in mainly US office buildings and found that satisfaction with all 15 parameters listed in the survey contributed significantly to overall workspace satisfaction.
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Economic Value of Parks via Human Mental Health: An Analytical Framework

Ralf Buckley, +1 more
- 16 Mar 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the economic value of nature via its contributions to human mental health is investigated, and the authors identify immediate information gaps and research priorities, and establish a framework for these calculations.

Satisfaction and self-estimated performance in relation to indoor environmental parameters and building features - eScholarship

Pawel Wargocki, +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how satisfaction with indoor environmental parameters and building features affects satisfaction and self-estimated job performance, and found that the improvement of building features such as amount of space, visual privacy and noise level offered the highest chance to improve satisfaction with workspace.
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Do better workplace environmental conditions improve job satisfaction

Amaya Erro-Garcés, +1 more
- 10 May 2019 - 
TL;DR: Workplace environmental conditions are shown to play an important role in explaining job satisfaction, comparable to contract conditions such as pay increases and contract duration as mentioned in this paper.However, the results are not driven by the perception of health or safety risks associated with worse environmental conditions.
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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

Christopher M. Fleming, +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a non-market valuation approach based on the "experienced preference method" or "life satisfaction approach" to estimate the implicit willingness to pay for a nonmarket good in monetary terms.
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Subjective Well-Being: Three Decades of Progress

Ed Diener, +3 more
- 10 Jan 2013 - 
TL;DR: Wilson's (1967) review of the area of subjective well-being (SWB) advanced several conclusions regarding those who report high levels of "happiness". A number of his conclusions have been overturned: youth and modest aspirations no longer are seen as prerequisites of SWB.
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Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress

Ed Diener, +3 more
- 01 Mar 1999 - 
TL;DR: Wilson's (1967) review of the area of subjective well-being (SWB) advanced several conclusions regarding those who report high levels of "happiness" A number of his conclusions have been overturned: youth and modest aspirations no longer are seen as prerequisites of SWB as discussed by the authors.
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Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion

Joshua D. Angrist, +1 more
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Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence

Richard A. Easterlin
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the association of income and happiness and suggest a Duesenberry-type model, involving relative status considerations as an important determinant of happiness.
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The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country

Alberto Abadie, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2003 - 
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Frequently Asked Questions (7)
Q1. What contributions have the authors mentioned in the paper "Workplace environmental conditions and life satisfaction in spain" ?

This paper expands the research on subjective well-being and outdoor environmental conditions by considering environmental conditions indoors. Specifically, the authors examine the impact on life satisfaction of self-perceived levels of air and noise pollution in the workplace. The authors provide a monetary valuation of these environmental conditions, using the life-satisfaction approach. This holds even after the authors control for potential endogeneity arising from simultaneity of self-perceived workplace environmental variables and life satisfaction, by employing an instrumental variable strategy. 

As an average value, about €400 per year - depending on distance to airport, noise nuisance level, family income, and dwelling insulation - would be needed to compensate individuals for increasing the level of noise nuisance. 

He applies the life satisfaction approach supplemented by hedonic house- price regression techniques to calculate total willingness-to-pay. 

Since their data are repeated cross-sections, the authors cannot control for unobserved individual heterogeneity through panel data estimation. 

The major contribution of their paper is that the authors combine two strands of research: theone that considers the association between environmental quality, climate, and SWBmeasures, and the literature relating employee perceptions of the work environment to well-being and life satisfaction. 

In their survey of buildings and the environment, Frontczak and Wargocki (2011) conclude that, when indoor environmental conditions can be controlled by employees, satisfaction improves. 

Regarding indoor environmental conditions, McCaughey et al. (2014) find that employee perceptions of workplace environmental conditions are related to individuallevel outcomes, such as well-being and job performance.