Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses … the level of satisfaction with political and economic institutions and with the education and health systems, whereas the …

-being, they overwhelmingly focus on life satisfaction as the cognitive dimension of well-being. Little is known about the … rapidly as compared to life satisfaction. Contrary to existing studies, we find decreases in emotional well-being but not in … life satisfaction in anticipation of unemployment. …

There is a well-established positive correlation between life-satisfaction measures and income in individual level … random. To probe the validity of these assumptions, I compare estimates for life satisfaction with those for job satisfaction …

, the sequence of improvements in various aspects of QoL is not always the same from one part of the world to another. And … sometimes, as in the case of happiness and life satisfaction, QoL indicators remain unchanged despite a doubling or more of real …

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 …

-being in Europe. We use a unique dataset that merges three waves of the European Social Survey with a new dataset on … environmental quality including SO2 concentrations and climate in Europe at the regional level. We find a robust negative impact of … SO2 concentrations on self-reported life satisfaction. …

satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age … of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health …

nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German …-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to …