M Nikolova
Biographic Data
| ID | 167093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Nikolova |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Nikolova |
| SIGNATURE | NIKOLOVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brookings Institution |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3247-760X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Work orientations and turnover
Voluntary turnover imposes substantial costs on organizations, yet we know little about whether workers' fundamental orientations toward work shape their mobility decisions. In this paper, we distinguish between job, career, and calling orientations, defined as the long-term beliefs about the role of work in one's life. Using original survey data from the Dutch LISS panel, we show that work orientations are strong predictors of quit intentions an…
Just another cog in the machine? A worker‐level view of robotization and tasks
Technological change has led to a decline in the share of routine and physical jobs, and a rise in the share of abstract and social ones at the economy level. However, much less is known about how these trends unfold at the individual level. Do workers' tasks become more or less routine and physical? Do workers shift towards more social and abstract activities? This paper is the first to explore these questions in the context of robotization. We …
The Relationship Between Inequality and Potential Emigration
The existing literature presents conflicting findings regarding the relationship between inequality and potential emigration. This paper utilizes individual-level data from the Gallup World Poll and country-level income inequality measures for 150 countries to contribute new evidence. The findings indicate that increasing inequality is linked to decreased desires and plans for emigration, a consistent global trend observed across various inequali…
The impact of learning about AI advancements on trust
Gini Who? The Relationship between Inequality Perceptions and Life Satisfaction
We study the relationship between perceived income inequality and subjective well-being. Individuals are often unaware of the level of and trends in income inequality in their countries. As a result, perceived inequality may matter for subjective well-being above and beyond actual inequality measures. Leveraging data on 33 countries from the 2016 Life in Transition Survey, which includes unique information on individuals' perceived inequality cha…
Being your own boss and bossing others
We examine the moderating role of being a supervisor for meaning and autonomy of self-employed and employed workers. We rely on regression analysis applied after entropy balancing based on a nationally representative dataset of over 80,000 individuals in 30 European countries for 2005, 2010, and 2015. We find that being a self-employed supervisor is correlated with more work meaningfulness and autonomy compared with being a salaried supervisor wo…
Double-edged sword
During Communism, party members and their relatives were typically privileged elites in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU). At the same time, secret police informants were often coerced to spy and report on their fellow citizens. After the fall of Communism, CEE countries and the Baltics underwent decommunization, unlike most FSU countries. This paper is the first to empirically distinguish between these two Commun…
The perceived well-being and health costs of exiting self-employment
We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end, we use rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1985 to 2017 and a difference-in-differences estimator. We find that while transitioning from self-employment to salaried employment brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i.e., switchin…
Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind
We offer the first global perspective on the well-being consequences of emigration for those staying behind using several subjective well-being measures (evaluations of best possible life, positive affect, stress, and depression). Using the Gallup World Poll data for 114 countries during 2009-2011, we find that having family members abroad is associated with greater evaluative well-being and positive affect, and receiving remittances is linked wi…
Your spouse is fired! How much do you care
This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the cross-spouse subjective well-being consequences of unemployment. Using German panel data on married and cohabiting partners for 1991–2015 and information on exogenous unemployment entry due to workplace closure, we show that one spouse’s unemployment experience reduces the life satisfaction of the other partner. The estimated spillover is at least one quarter of the effect of own unemplo…
Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-Being
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon Declines to Review UN Security Council Action
The question whether an international tribunal created by the United Nations Security Council has the power to review its own legality has recently been answered in the negative by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in Ayyash, directly contradicting the much celebrated Tadic decision of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. This paper critically analyses the reasoning of the trial and appeals chambers of the STL as we…
Changes due to acceleration in the somatotypology of students in the town of Plodiv
Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-Being
Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind
We offer the first global perspective on the well-being consequences of emigration for those staying behind using several subjective well-being measures (evaluations of best possible life, positive affect, stress, and depression). Using the Gallup World Poll data for 114 countries during 2009-2011, we find that having family members abroad is associated with greater evaluative well-being and positive affect, and receiving remittances is linked wi…
Your spouse is fired! How much do you care
This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the cross-spouse subjective well-being consequences of unemployment. Using German panel data on married and cohabiting partners for 1991–2015 and information on exogenous unemployment entry due to workplace closure, we show that one spouse’s unemployment experience reduces the life satisfaction of the other partner. The estimated spillover is at least one quarter of the effect of own unemplo…
Double-edged sword
During Communism, party members and their relatives were typically privileged elites in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU). At the same time, secret police informants were often coerced to spy and report on their fellow citizens. After the fall of Communism, CEE countries and the Baltics underwent decommunization, unlike most FSU countries. This paper is the first to empirically distinguish between these two Commun…
The impact of learning about AI advancements on trust
Changes due to acceleration in the somatotypology of students in the town of Plodiv
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon Declines to Review UN Security Council Action
The question whether an international tribunal created by the United Nations Security Council has the power to review its own legality has recently been answered in the negative by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in Ayyash, directly contradicting the much celebrated Tadic decision of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. This paper critically analyses the reasoning of the trial and appeals chambers of the STL as we…
Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-Being
Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind
We offer the first global perspective on the well-being consequences of emigration for those staying behind using several subjective well-being measures (evaluations of best possible life, positive affect, stress, and depression). Using the Gallup World Poll data for 114 countries during 2009-2011, we find that having family members abroad is associated with greater evaluative well-being and positive affect, and receiving remittances is linked wi…
Your spouse is fired! How much do you care
This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the cross-spouse subjective well-being consequences of unemployment. Using German panel data on married and cohabiting partners for 1991–2015 and information on exogenous unemployment entry due to workplace closure, we show that one spouse’s unemployment experience reduces the life satisfaction of the other partner. The estimated spillover is at least one quarter of the effect of own unemplo…
The perceived well-being and health costs of exiting self-employment
We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end, we use rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1985 to 2017 and a difference-in-differences estimator. We find that while transitioning from self-employment to salaried employment brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i.e., switchin…
Being your own boss and bossing others
We examine the moderating role of being a supervisor for meaning and autonomy of self-employed and employed workers. We rely on regression analysis applied after entropy balancing based on a nationally representative dataset of over 80,000 individuals in 30 European countries for 2005, 2010, and 2015. We find that being a self-employed supervisor is correlated with more work meaningfulness and autonomy compared with being a salaried supervisor wo…
Double-edged sword
During Communism, party members and their relatives were typically privileged elites in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU). At the same time, secret police informants were often coerced to spy and report on their fellow citizens. After the fall of Communism, CEE countries and the Baltics underwent decommunization, unlike most FSU countries. This paper is the first to empirically distinguish between these two Commun…
Gini Who? The Relationship between Inequality Perceptions and Life Satisfaction
We study the relationship between perceived income inequality and subjective well-being. Individuals are often unaware of the level of and trends in income inequality in their countries. As a result, perceived inequality may matter for subjective well-being above and beyond actual inequality measures. Leveraging data on 33 countries from the 2016 Life in Transition Survey, which includes unique information on individuals' perceived inequality cha…
Just another cog in the machine? A worker‐level view of robotization and tasks
Technological change has led to a decline in the share of routine and physical jobs, and a rise in the share of abstract and social ones at the economy level. However, much less is known about how these trends unfold at the individual level. Do workers' tasks become more or less routine and physical? Do workers shift towards more social and abstract activities? This paper is the first to explore these questions in the context of robotization. We …
The Relationship Between Inequality and Potential Emigration
The existing literature presents conflicting findings regarding the relationship between inequality and potential emigration. This paper utilizes individual-level data from the Gallup World Poll and country-level income inequality measures for 150 countries to contribute new evidence. The findings indicate that increasing inequality is linked to decreased desires and plans for emigration, a consistent global trend observed across various inequali…
The impact of learning about AI advancements on trust
Work orientations and turnover
Voluntary turnover imposes substantial costs on organizations, yet we know little about whether workers' fundamental orientations toward work shape their mobility decisions. In this paper, we distinguish between job, career, and calling orientations, defined as the long-term beliefs about the role of work in one's life. Using original survey data from the Dutch LISS panel, we show that work orientations are strong predictors of quit intentions an…
Psychology (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Life satisfaction (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4 works)