health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent … pandemic and two lockdowns on the mental health and subjective well-being of German workers. Employing an event-study design … of well-being in certain areas of life, such as satisfaction with the job and with leisure, which are negatively affected …

The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the … of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly … for income evaluations turns inward. "Financial hardship", the shortfall from one's own previous peak income, takes over …

investigates the effect of job loss and becoming unemployed, another field of study focuses on the determinants of job satisfaction … evolving around employment conditions, self-employment, and potential public sector satisfaction premiums. A smaller part of …

We quantify the value of changes in life circumstances in Germany following reunification. To this end, we develop and … implement a fixed-effect estimator for ordinal life satisfaction in the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find strong negative … effects on life satisfaction from being recently fired, losing a spouse through either death or separation and time spent in …

. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental … conclusions of previous research - including earlier work on the effects upon human well-being of higher income. …

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … for other reference groups, such as neighbours. Work-related income comparisons are mostly upwards and there is a strong …

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …

investigate how heterogeneity in cultural profiles is associated with overall life satisfaction and relevant domains (health … relationship between cultural participation and overall life satisfaction. Still, a more complex picture arises when considering … all the statistically significant differences in life and domain satisfaction across cultural consumption patterns. These …