income effects. In GSOEP they cancel to give no effect of effect of comparison income on life satisfaction in the whole …

income. The effects on life-satisfaction are positive and significant for those under 45, consistent with Hirschman's (1973 …

would benefit women. Using life satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we conduct an empirical … generate a control group of non-widowed women. The average level of life satisfaction in the control group serves as a … reference to measure the degree of adaptation to widowhood. In the second step, the life satisfaction trajectories of both …

shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be … characterized by three age stages. In the first stage, life satisfaction declines until approximately the fifth life decade. In the …

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …

: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction …

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 … work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how …

the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the … ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and …

-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 …