groupsare most detrimental to life satisfaction? The analysis is based on data from the 2008 and 2009 pretest modules of the … Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). The results show the working sphere (colleagues and members of the same profession) to be …. The consequences of such comparisons for life satisfaction prove to be negative: the more importance an individual …

concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i … concepts using micro panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for subjective well …-being depending more on relative satisfaction than on absolute levels of income. This finding holds even after controlling for other …

of happiness across the life-span. The empirical test draws on West German panel data that followed individuals from 1984 …

-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel survey, the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the present study conducts an … empirical test of this assumption. Our matching-based estimation reveals satisfaction trajectories of women who experience the … death of their spouse and identifies the causal effect of widowhood. The average level of satisfaction in a control group of …

data were disseminated in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). For two samples, the resulting rankings of the …

19 waves of the German Socioeconomic Panel. The findings suggest that the conditional probabilities of entry into …