Despite lower incomes the self-employed often report higher job satisfaction. But this increased job satisfaction only … sometimes translates into higher life satisfaction, likely due to the heterogeneous nature of self-employment. By distinguishing … different types of self-employment, this paper sheds light onto why some self-employeds even report lower life satisfaction …

structure was accompanied by a widening class gap in life satisfaction. We analyse whether there is a social class gradient in … life satisfaction and whether, over the last decades, this class gradient increased in Germany, relative to the comparison … both countries, respondents in higher classes report substantially higher life satisfaction than those in lower classes …

regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that … individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring …

satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …: for a given number of years in poverty, satisfaction is lower when the years are linked together. As such, poverty …

Long term panel data enable researchers to construct Life Satisfaction (LS) trajectories for individuals over time. In …, including health, frequency of physical exercise, frequency of social activities/social participation, and satisfaction with …