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 …

self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are more satisfied with their life than the unemployed and report more … that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …, triggered by the opportunity to use the time in a way that yields higher levels of satisfaction than working. …

income generally has a statistically significant effect. We find a significant effect of social capital on life satisfaction …

approaches for estimating the utility losses of the people affected are discussed. Results using the life satisfaction approach …