associated with job satisfaction, even though the self-employed often earn less than their employed peers, work longer hours and … enjoy higher overall life satisfaction, which is due to heterogeneity of types of self-employment, as well as motivational …

higher job satisfaction than comparable non-members. This expectation is not consistent with empirical findings. The evidence … sometimes indicates that union members have lower job satisfaction, but overall suggests the absence of a robust correlation … satisfaction. It distinguishes settings in which a trade union provides public goods from those in which it restricts the provision …

satisfaction, but also, all-round happiness and satisfaction with life. Using nationally representative cross-sectional data, this … study provides evidence of the negative effect of perceived job insecurity on life satisfaction in post-communist Albania …: being in a blue-collar job is associated with lower overall life satisfaction, but if this job is perceived as insecure, the …

We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … older husbands. Marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently-aged couples … relative to those in similarly-aged couples. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction …

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 …

decisions and satisfaction. Using Australian data spanning the years 2001-2014, we employ a two-stage estimation procedure to … examine how deviations from housework norms relate to couples' satisfaction. We find that satisfaction is negatively affected … by predicted housework time, and that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected by their partners …

a lack of a structure in daily life. Unlike life satisfaction, unemployment leaves affective well-being mostly … importance of the social norms to work and be self-reliant for the life satisfaction of the unemployed, as well as by studies … showing the positive life satisfaction effect of retirement on unemployed workers. Based on this strong evidence for identity …