departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …

This article studies the importance of local conditions for the employment integration of refugees in Sweden, this in … and employment rates, a proxy for the local supply of jobs, significantly affected the individual refugees' chances to … openings. We also find that the structure of the local economy affected the refugees' probability of obtaining employment …

Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous geographic assignment in Switzerland, within-canton variation in labor …

-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We … own household income, respondents report higher satisfaction levels when they experience an increase in their income over … also report less satisfaction with life. At the same time, our evidence suggests that relative wealth effect is stronger …

analyzing the effect of microcredit-enabled entrepreneurship on overall life satisfaction – a key manifestation of subjective … three villages of Bangladesh in 2013. In spite of having no direct effects, we find that microcredit borrowing has an … indirect negative effect on overall life satisfaction, through increased worry. On a positive note, we find that female micro …

analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job satisfaction and job mobility. We find that overeducation and …

We reassess the empirical effect of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a … do not. This has consequences also for inference about the happiness effect of employment. We find that employment per se …

examine the relationship between the dynamics of work-limiting disability and employment, hours of work, earnings and life … satisfaction. We employ two alternative classifications of the dynamic trajectories of disability and, in doing so, are able to …