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 …

-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 …

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 …

Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …

We investigate how individual well-being is affected by unemployment. Analysing panel data on life satisfaction, we …

gold standard during the 1930s. We do this by separating expectations of taxation and of devaluation that are implicitly … expectations of a capital levy or other taxation devices; third that hyperinflation was not expected, even at the moment of maximum … low as the spot value. For the 1930s, we show that expectations of a depreciation of the franc explain the rise in …

We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households’ expectations of retirement outcomes and private wealth … population, elicits these expectations during a period of intense pension reforms between 1989 and 2002. These reforms had … of social security arrangements on expectations of retirement outcomes and household saving decisions. Our main findings …