using a random spatial effect model. We find that migration contributes to convergence in regional skill endowments across …This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the …

, and overall life satisfaction? Labor supply and corresponding demand are fundamental to production. Labor economists know … importance; they guarantee high productivity, quality output, and individual happiness. Employees demand higher social awareness …

Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … positive and significant effect on individuals' overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …

Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours … 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 …

-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 …

significant decline in happiness. The boost that is received through migration appears to bring people back to their initial level … of happiness. As opposed to labour market outcomes of migration, SWB outcomes do not differ significantly between men and …The majority of modelling studies on consequences of internal migration focus almost exclusively on the labour market …

Subjective well-being is primarily treated as an outcome variable in the economic literature. However, is happiness … also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a … significant inverted U-shaped relationship exists between residual happiness and an unemployed individual's future reemployment …

of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us … to study how effective migration within the EU is as an adjustment mechanism. Our data clearly show an increase in …

secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. …

Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than … exit from self-employment are associated with internal migration. …