most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …

replacement rate vis-à-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income …

We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart … recognition. We show that a negative association between membership and satisfaction only emerges where there is a union … effect on satisfaction. Our estimates indicate that the unobserved factors that lead to sorting across workplaces are …

offer jobs more highly valued by women than men or that the relationship between job satisfaction and firm size is less … negative for women than men. Using data on job satisfaction, we find evidence for the latter hypothesis as well as some … indication that wages and fringe benefits compensate for lower levels of job satisfaction in larger firms, but that this is so …

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch … properties of vignette equivalence and response consistency. In our data set both job satisfaction and vignettes are numerically … evaluated on a 0-10-scale. This fact allows us to interpret the evaluations as cardinal satisfaction values and to estimate …