In recent years the frequency of intra-dialytic symptoms has been decreasing, improving the patient well-being during treatment sessions. This has mainly been due to technical advances, such as more reliable monitoring devices, better water quality, physiological bicarbonate-based dialysate and machines to control ultrafiltration. Nowadays during hemodialysis (HD), patients suffer less from hyp...

Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of individuals. In this paper, I explore whether and to what extent people with more social capital are sheltered from the harmful effects of unemployment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2004, I find that social c...

[2010]; the Australasian Journal of Philosophy is available online at: . Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the University of Birmingham, the University of Helsinki, and the University of Alabama. I am grateful to audiences and to Marshall Abrams, Larry James, Antti Kauppinen, Harold Kincaid, Uskali Mäki, Don Ross, and two anonymous referees for u...

We argue that the use of online networks may threaten subjective well-being in several ways, due to the inherent attributes of Internet-mediated interaction and through its effects on social trust and sociability. We test our hypotheses on a representative sample of the Italian population. We find a significantly negative correlation between online networking and well-being. This result is part...

If workers choose between permanent and flexible contracts, utility should equalize. Estimates of job satisfaction using the British Household Panel Survey reveal the critical role played by unmeasured worker heterogeneity. Accounting for such heterogeneity, shows that flexible contracts are a strong negative determinant of satisfaction with job security but are often a positive determinant of ...

Subjective Well-being(SWB), which refers to how people experience the quality of their lives, is of great use to public policy-makers as well as economic, sociological research, etc. Traditionally, the measurement of SWB relies on time-consuming and costly self-report questionnaires. Nowadays, people are motivated to share their experiences and feelings on social media, so we propose to sense S...

primarily responsible for the design and management of the HILDA Survey and the preparation and dissemination of the data.

Work is central to most people's identities. When asked a general question, "What do you do"?, most people respond with their job title. Moreover, across many languages, a significant number of people's surnan1es are based on occupations (e.g., in English, just to name a few: abbot, archer, baker, barber, barker, brewer, carpenter, carter, clark, collier, cook, cooper, farmer, fisher, fowler, g...