Despite political efforts, balancing work and family life is still challenging. This paper provides novel evidence on … more family-friendly workplaces. These changes over time allow us to identify causal effects of childcare support using a … satisfaction and job satisfaction. In particular mothers who worked limited hours before the introduction, possibly due to …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … sample. No effects on life satisfaction can be found except for underweight men. They reveal less satisfaction. Only in the …

identifying episodes of single motherhood and employment during life courses. Since family statuses of single mothers are … public childcare arrangements, but are capable of finding individual solutions are more likely to balance work and family …

involuntarily out of the labor force or in part-time employment because of family constraints (e.g., due to lack of available and … involuntary familyrelated non-participation and part-time employment on mothers' life satisfaction. Controlling for unobserved … of family constraints (of being in short/long part-time employment). Moreover, in terms of overall happiness among …

generate the P-index. We show that - in contrast to evaluative life satisfaction - the average unemployed experiences more … work and job satisfaction in general have the same association with meaning. …

children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR … positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is driven by a … in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low socioeconomic …

. Contrary to previous research, we find no health impact when TV consumption increases. For life satisfaction, we even find …

. Additionally, satisfaction with family life increases, which may be a hidden benefit of being unemployed. In contrast, satisfaction … higher satisfaction with free time, while time spent on hobbies increases to a lesser extent than home production …