Welcome to the Homepage of Paul Frijters. 

       (will move to Queensland University of Technology in
        January 2006 at http://www.bus.qut.edu.au/paulfrijters/, after which the website will not be updated
         regularly)

Recent interests / work in progress (Quick details: CV . Long details: work in progress or Past and Future esearch ):

- Happiness projects: death, satisfaction, expectations, health Sat, Job Sat, Russian happiness.
- Labour market projects: labour supply in the UK, discrimination, search efficiency, entrepreneurs, education.
- Development projects: social capital, relational capital, creative destruction, economic development.
- Popular science projects: Cultural Convergence, Pandora's Box, the Golden Age of Humanity, God's Phone Number.

Frijters, P, and Van der Klaauw, B. (2006), `Job search with nonpaticipation', Economic Journal, 239-77. Tinbergen Institute Discussion paper. IZA working paper.

Frijters, P., Geishecker, I., Shields, M.A., J.P. Haisken-DeNew (2006), ‘What happened to life satisfaction in Russia in the 1990’s’, forthcoming  Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

Frijters, P., Gregory, R. (2006), ‘From golden age to golden age: Australia’s Great Leap forward’, forthcoming in a Jun2 2006 special edition of the Economic Record for the celebration of Prof. Robert Gregory’s career.

Frijters, P., Shields, M.A., Whitley-Price,S. (2006), ‘Investigating the quitting decisions of nurses: panal data evidence of the British National Health Service ’, forthcoming Health Economics.

      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, forthcoming.

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.

       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.