analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research … investigates the effect of job loss and becoming unemployed, another field of study focuses on the determinants of job satisfaction … evolving around employment conditions, self-employment, and potential public sector satisfaction premiums. A smaller part of …

is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have …, subjective measures of job quality have mostly bounced back between 1997 and 2005. Overall job satisfaction is higher in 2005 …

Happiness drops when individuals become unemployed. The negative impact of the unemployment shock, however, may differ … whether such deep psychological traits have an influence on how unemployment is perceived. It is found that unemployment has a … significantly negative effect on life satisfaction in Switzerland. I furthermore present evidence which confirms to some extent the …

Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well-being …, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is … used to shed light on this issue; these data allow us to distinguish habituation to unemployment from sample selection. The …

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new … subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for individual welfare. In our review, we intend to provide an evaluation …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private …. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers’ well-being by …

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in … other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership …

increasing attention. Although many studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for subjective well-being …, they overwhelmingly focus on life satisfaction as the cognitive dimension of well-being. Little is known about the … emotional antecedents and consequences of unemployment. We thus investigate the impact of unemployment on emotional well-being …

This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional … unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find that higher regional unemployment rates are … channel through which others' unemployment affects time allocation decisions of the unemployed. As higher regional …

who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative … if caseworker and unemployed belong to the same social group. Coincidence in a single characteristic, e.g. same gender of …