the importance of well-being measures in identifying and monitoring trends in life satisfaction and optimism-and misery …

We examine the relationship between union membership and job satisfaction over the life-course using data from the … find there is a significant negative correlation between union membership and job satisfaction that is apparent across the … life-course. Lagged union membership status going back many years is negatively correlated with current job satisfaction …

peer income typically elicits envy, better peer health provides positive signals for life and health satisfaction …. Nonetheless, health norms vary widely across countries. The results suggest that the life satisfaction approach applied to surveys …

expected results. We find that subjective well being has decreased, but only marginally. Satisfaction with market policies and …

conducted in Europe and the United States has documented that higher unemployment rates lead to lower reported life-satisfaction … life satisfaction measured on a five-point scale. Our intuition is that the so-called comparison effect drives this result …