persons report substantially lower levels of life satisfaction than employed persons. When looking at specific types of …

satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion … interacts negatively with this effect in life satisfaction. Analysing time-use data and well-being indicators for various areas … of life, we find evidence that involuntary job mobility turns out to be harmful for satisfaction with family life. By …

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …

’ response to an exogenous shock of (un)happiness (i.e. the death of husband or wife). We conclude that SWB explains voting …

study the effect of grandparents looking after grandchildren on quality of life and life satisfaction of grandparents. We … to grandfathers. The favorable effect on life satisfaction is primarily directly attributable to caring for grandchildren …

children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR … positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is driven by a … in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low socioeconomic …

previously published for other countries are generally supported. Unemployment has a strongly depressing effect on happiness. A … higher income level raises happiness, however, only to a small extent. …

likely require progress in closing racial gaps in objective circumstances. -- subjective well-being ; life satisfaction … ; happiness ; race …