This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well …-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical …. Topics covered include the estimation of non-pecuniary costs of unemployment, unemployment over time, the role of others …

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i ….e., switching from self-employment to unemployment) are substantial and exceed the costs of involuntarily losing a salaried job (i …

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional income-fuel cost indicators, we also use more proximal heating … income-fuel cost balance and more proximal perceptions of heating adequacy, reveals the presence of more pronounced …

We analyse how unemployment affects individuals' social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction … unemployment. …

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point in time those with higher income are happier because they are …

mental health and subjective well-being (SWB). This paper attempts to fill the gap by investigating the impact of air … pollution on several key dimensions, including mental health status, depressive symptoms, moment-to-moment happiness, and …

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country fixed effects are added to panel … estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries - Austria; Belgium … predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months in advance based on individuals' fears of unemployment, their perceptions …

buffering the adverse effects of challenging life circumstances in three key domains-employment, marriage, and health ….e., donating money, volunteering, and helping strangers). In situations of poor health, however, only Olson-type memberships … evaluations. Furthermore, the negative association between unemployment and overall life evaluations is alleviated only by Putnam …

well-being associated with a marginal increase in income is larger for poorer than for richer populations. This hypothesis … that the correlation between income and satisfaction is greater for the lower-income group (the Roma) than for the higher-income … group (majority population). Further, the correlation between income and emotional well-being does not differ between the …

negatively associated with the well-being loss upon unemployment. That is, the negative unemployment shock on their well-being is … with pro-activity during the unemployment period. The results are robust to various checks including estimators, measures …