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 …

We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze …

retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in their life satisfaction when they retire. These results are robust to … including identity in the utility function, results from the empirical life satisfaction literature can be reconciled with the …

show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is significantly reduced if right-wing extremism in the native population … increases. Moreover, the life satisfaction of highly educated immigrants is affected more strongly than that of low …

association study. In a nationally-representative twin sample, we first show that about 33% of the variation in life satisfaction … between a functional polymorphism on the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) and life satisfaction. We initially find that … individuals with the longer, transcriptionally more efficient variant of this genotype report greater life satisfaction (n=2 …