The happy artist ?
نویسنده
چکیده
The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that artistic work might result in exceptionally high job satisfaction, a conjecture that has been mentioned at various times in the literature. We conduct the first direct empirical investigation of artists’ job satisfaction. The analysis is based on panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP). Artists on average are found to be considerably more satisfied with their work than non-artists, a finding that corroborates the conjectures in the literature. Differences in income, working hours, and personality cannot account for the observed difference in job satisfaction. Partially, but not fully, the higher job satisfaction can be attributed to the higher self-employment rate among artists. Suggestive evidence is found that superior “procedural” characteristics of artistic work, such as increased variety and on-the-job learning, contribute to the difference in job satisfaction. JEL Classifications: Z10, J24, J28, J31,
منابع مشابه
Narrative Proverbs in the African Novel
To begin with a theoretical question, what happens to the development of literature when a relatively new cultural system based on the written word is superimposed upon an ancient oral traditional culture? The first discovery is that the oral culture does not immediately disappear by the mere fact of its being in contact with writing, nor does the literature of the oral society disappear becaus...
متن کاملA Comparative Study on the Epistemology of Art in Iran and Europe Emphasizing the Social Position of the Artist
The position of the artist in different periods of history has undergone fundamental changes due to the difference in the concept of art and the relationship between art and wisdom: From the creative idea of creation, which placed the creator in the position of the first artist, to the era of the rule of the philosophy of religion or theology, in which the artist, as a craftsman, was merely the...
متن کاملTraces of the artist: Sensitivity to the role of the artist in children's pictorial reasoning
In three studies we investigated the question of whether children consider the attributes of the artist (sentience, age level, affective style, emotion) when making judgments about the traces (drawings) made by that artist. In Study 1, 2–5-year-old children were asked to find pictures drawn by a machine, an adult, an older and a younger child. Results indicated that children younger than 4 year...
متن کاملHappy Street: a point to reach the happy city Case study (Bu-Ali Sina and Pasteur axis of Hamadan city)
The happy city is one of the topics that has been considered by many urban experts in recent decades. The issue of happiness in urban space is becoming one of the urban spaceschr('39') expectations. From Montgomerychr('39')s perspective, happiness is not a vague concept but a defined and measurable equation directly influenced by the manchr('39')s environment. The issue of a happy city in our c...
متن کاملHealth Threats of All Stripes
just decided to do a stripe painting, just to be outrageous, " Gene Davis said, pondering the origins of his iconic works. " Let's see if I can't do something that goes in the opposite direction from painterly abstraction. " This decision " to get away from painterliness " and " move somewhere else " was at the heart of his art. " It's something, you know, that shakes them up. It's not a painti...
متن کاملThe Ordering Process of Narrative in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Regarding the literary historical debates, one of the main concerns of modern historiography is the way of representing the concept of reality within the framework of a coherent narrative, a reality that is only achievable through the process of narrative that is supposed to be constructive and ordering. Therefore, in order to examine this ordering process of narrative in James Joyce's novel, A...
متن کامل