Phone: (07) 3138 2947
Fax: (07) 3138 1500
E-mail: p.frijters@qut.edu.au
Location: Z855 - Gardens Point Campus
School of Economics and Finance
Recent interests / work in progress
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- Happiness projects: death, satisfaction, expectations, health satisfaction, job satisfaction, income.
- Labour market projects: labour supply, discrimination, search efficiency, entrepreneurs, education.
- Development projects: social capital, relational capital, creative destruction, economic development, rural-urban migration in China and Indonesia.
- Popular science projects: Cultural Convergence, Pandora’s Box, the Golden Age of Humanity, God’s Phone Number - Socio-economic mysteries: latest version. Click here for Old Homepage.
Recent Academic Journal publications:
2008 - 2009
Carroll, N, Frijters, P., and M. A. Shields (2008), ‘Quantifying the Costs of Drought: New Evidence from Life Satisfaction Data’, forthcoming Journal of Population Economics.
Clark, A., Frijters, P., Shields, M.A. (2008), ‘A survey of the income happiness gradient’, Journal of Economic Literature, 46(1), March 2008, pp. 95-144. also IZA, NCER, and DELTA discussion paper. For a working paper version, find here.
Frijters, P., Farrell, L. (2008), ‘Choosing to become a lost cause: the perverse effects of benefit preconditions’, Oxford Economic Papers, 60: 1-19.
Frijters, P., Greenwell, H., Shields, M.A., and J.P. Haisken-DeNew (2008), ‘How rational were expectations in East Germany after the falling of the wall?’, forthcoming Canadian Journal of Economics, IZA working paper.
Frijters, P., Johnson, D., Shah, M., Shields, M.A. (2009), ‘To Work or Not to Work? Maternal Labor Supply and Child Development’, forthcoming in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Frijters, P., and Leigh, A. (2009), ‘Materialism on the march: from conspicuous leisure to conspicuous consumption’, Journal of Socio Economics, Volume 37, Issue 5, October 2008, pp 1937-45
Frijters, P, and Aydogan Ulker (2008), ‘Robustness in health research: do differences in health measures, techniques, and time frame matter?’, Journal of Health Economics 27., pp. 1626-44 .
Sharma, A., Frijters, P. (2009), ‘Groom Price – Female Human capital: some empirical evidence’, forthcoming Journal of Socio Economics.
2007
Anna Cristina D'Addio & Tor Eriksson & Paul Frijters, (2007)"An analysis of the determinants of job satisfaction when individuals' baseline satisfaction levels may differ," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 39(19), pages 2413-2423.
Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., Whitley-Price,S. (2007), ‘Investigating the quitting decisions of nurses: panel data evidence of the British National Health Service’, Health Economics, Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 57-73.
2006
Frijters, P., Geishecker, I., Shields, M.A., J.P. Haisken-DeNew (2006), ‘Can the large swings in Russian Life Satisfaction be Explained by Ups and Downs in Real Incomes?’, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 108(3), pp.433-458.
Frijters, P, and Van der Klaauw, B. (2006), ‘Job search with nonpaticipation’, Economic Journal, 239-77. Tinbergen Institute Discussion paper. IZA working paper. Press statement.
Dulleck, U., Frijters, P., and Winter-Ebmer, R. (2006), ‘Reducing Start-up costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labor Market.’, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 108(2), 317-338. Also IZA paper.
Frijters, P., Gregory, R. (2006), ‘From golden age to golden age: Australia’s Great Leap forward’, June 2006 edition (volume 82, issue 2) of the Economic Record for the celebration of Prof. Robert Gregory’s career, pp. 207-225.
2005
Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., and J.P. Haisken-DeNew (2005), ‘The effect of income on health: evidence from a large scale natural experiment’, Journal of Health Economics (24), pp. 997-1017 .
Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., Whitley-Price, S. (2005), ‘Job-search of ethnic workers in the UK’, Economic Journal, F359-376. A feature edition with papers from D. Card, C. Dustman et al., and T. Hatton. Press statement.
2004
Ferrer-i-Carbonel, A., Frijters, P. (2004), ‘The effect of metholodogy on the determinants of happiness’, Economic Journal 114, 641-659. Press Statement .Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., and J.P. Haisken-DeNew (2004), ‘The value of reunification in Germany; An analysis of changes in life satisfaction?’, Journal of Human Resources 39(3), pp. 649-74.
Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., and J.P. Haisken-DeNew (2004), ‘Money does matter! Evidence from increasing real incomes in East Germany following reunification’, American Economic Review, , 94(3), pp. 730-741.