analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research …

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 …

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 …

We look for evidence of adaptation in well-being to major life events using eighteen waves of British panel data … for unemployment. These findings are remarkably similar to those in previous work on German panel data. Equally, the time … profiles with life satisfaction as the well-being measure are very close to those using a twelve-item scale of psychological …

events, tend to return to some baseline level of wellbeing? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the … unemployment for men. In general, men are more affected by labour market events (unemployment and layoffs) than are women. Last, we …

It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of … predictor of well-being levels, but there is no evidence that it moderates the effect of unemployment on well-being. The well-being … effects of unemployment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2004, I find that social capital is an important …

unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …