. Beginning to consider migration is associated with low life satisfaction, job loss, and unemployment. In contrast, actually … payments when household members have deteriorating life satisfaction and/or subjective reports of worsening economic conditions …

reflects changes in perceived satisfaction with living standards and the ability to have a purposeful and meaningful life …

employment status or other measures of human capital, such as health and education. These findings have policy relevance, since …

controlling for work conditions, informal workers do not have statistically significantly lower job satisfaction and under no … specification are informal workers more likely to self-assess worse health than formal workers. Finally, there is some association … between informal employment and household poverty and life satisfaction, but it is not robust to changes in econometric …