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 … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …

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 …

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …

This paper investigates the causal impact of working conditions on mental health in the UK, combining new comprehensive … quality impacts different dimensions of mental health. Specifically, skills and discretion primarily affect the loss of …) and job demand (lower intensity) lead to greater health benefits, especially for occupations that are inherently …

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 …

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 …

-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical …

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 … life satisfaction has little to do with the immediate air quality. Our results shed light on air pollution as an important …