This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …

groupsare most detrimental to life satisfaction? The analysis is based on data from the 2008 and 2009 pretest modules of the …. The consequences of such comparisons for life satisfaction prove to be negative: the more importance an individual … attaches to income comparisons with reference groups, the lower his or her life satisfaction. Income relative to neighbors and …

Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self …-employment on job satisfaction. Accounting for anticipation and adaptation to job changes in general, which includes changes between … employee jobs, reduces the effect of self-employment on job satisfaction by 70%. When controlling for anticipation and …

The research on job satisfaction has a long history and is one of the most intensively studied subjects - not only in … studies both in the consideration of personality variables as well as the influence of factors to explain job satisfaction, do … conditions as well as the interaction of these two groups of variables on job satisfaction by means of the German Socio …

satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm … characteristics, we find a difference between males and females in the correlation of training with job satisfaction which is positive … find that financial support and career-orientation of courses only seems to matter for the job satisfaction of men but not …

. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that artistic work might result in exceptionally high job satisfaction, a … artists' job satisfaction. The analysis is based on panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP). Artists on … job satisfaction. Partially, but not fully, the higher job satisfaction can be attributed to the higher self …