Unemployment, life satisfaction and retrospective error

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-61

  Jürges, Hendrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Life satisfaction; Retrospective bias; Salience; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845809630     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00441.x     Document Type: Article

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