The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … the literature investigates potential driving effects of happiness on labor market outcomes. This article will give an …

Subjective well-being is primarily treated as an outcome variable in the economic literature. However, is happiness … significant inverted U-shaped relationship exists between residual happiness and an unemployed individual's future reemployment … predicted by a number of socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. This paper is the first to show that happiness is mainly …

potential implications for economists and policy makers are discussed. -- resilience ; adaptation ; happiness ; unemployment …

Econometric analyses in the happiness literature typically use subjective well-being (SWB) data to compare the mean of … observed or latent happiness across samples. Recent critiques show that com-paring the mean of ordinal data is only valid under … studies in the economics of happiness literature have been futile. In order to salvage some of the prior results and avoid …

paper explores how happiness regression equations might be used in tort cases to calculate compensatory damages for … compensation amounts are discussed. -- Bereavement ; damages ; happiness ; compensation ; well-being ; GHQ scores …