2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines the effect of job displacement on … various measures of subjective well-being. The results indicate that the effect of job displacement on subjective well-being … varies by sex and by measure of subjective well-being: among men job displacement does not affect moment-to-moment subjective …

Happiness drops when individuals become unemployed. The negative impact of the unemployment shock, however, may differ … whether such deep psychological traits have an influence on how unemployment is perceived. It is found that unemployment has a … significantly negative effect on life satisfaction in Switzerland. I furthermore present evidence which confirms to some extent the …

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … affected by regional unemployment. However, insecure employed men and poor-prospect unemployed men are less negatively, or even …

how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel … data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on …. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …

, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer … from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes …

. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income … poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being …

existence of son preference among fathers in the U.S. by estimating the effect of child gender on the fathers' subjective well-being …Using data drawn from 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines the …. A wide range of subjective well-being measures, including happiness, pain, sadness, stress, tiredness, and …

This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using … German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for … nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German …