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 …