disposable income and a gain of leisure time - and the psychological (and cultural) notion of the lonely, sad empty nester. This … conflict is an empirical question and here it is resolved via an assessment of the change in life satisfaction that is reported … goes on to do: The found reduced life satisfaction seems to be wholly moderated if the last child leaves the nest for the …

until leaving welfare status. We utilize life satisfaction to track such factors. The German PASS-ADIAB dataset combines … income, time-stable individual traits, employment biographies and local labor market effects.Given a broad set of further … covariates, we find that life satisfaction of in-work benefit recipientsis negatively associated with job search, whereas the …