-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …

abnormally low levels of life satisfaction. Using data from the World Values Survey and other sources, we study various … explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that the disparity in life satisfaction between residents of transition and non … the aged population explain a great deal of the difference in life satisfaction between transition countries and other …

satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how …

intermediary, parameters of the information structure (precisions of public and private information), and the level of stress …

happiness. In this literature it is usually assumed that reference standards against which people compare themselves are …

This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972 …-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s …. There have been large changes in the level of happiness across groups: Two-thirds of the black-white happiness gap has been …

and Oswald, when we analyse life satisfaction in place of happiness, and when we measure development using GDP per capita … level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an …

that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …-being, and is pervasive across demographic groups and industrialized countries. Relative declines in female happiness have eroded … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …

are more likely to be employed, report having more close friends, and have a higher overall level of life satisfaction. In …