health of workers, their ability to successfully combine work and life while fully mobilising their skills and abilities to …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched injured and non-injured workers …, these health shocks (predominantly impairments in the musculoskeletal system) are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed …

-mobility countries turn out to be ambiguous. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; inequality ; income distribution … income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …

We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the … attitudes toward the income distribution in a society: the normative and the comparative view. The first can be thought of as … the individual's disinterested evaluation of income inequality; on the contrary, the second view reflects self …

This paper studies the evolution of life satisfaction over the life course in Germany. It clarifies the causal … and time effects. The empirical part analyzes the distribution of life satisfaction over the life course at the aggregated …, subgroup and individual level. To the findings: On average, life satisfaction is mildly decreasing up to age fifty …

translated into decisive improvements in household disposable incomes while significant redistribution has ensured low income … lower labour market attachments. Outcomes in education and health care are subject to inequalities. Family services are …