satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion … interacts negatively with this effect in life satisfaction. Analysing time-use data and well-being indicators for various areas … of life, we find evidence that involuntary job mobility turns out to be harmful for satisfaction with family life. By …

German Socio-Economic Panel data is used to show that the decrease in life satisfaction caused by an increase in the … unemployed reduces self-employed workers' satisfaction considerably more than salaried workers' satisfaction. These results …

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

Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the nonpecuniary life satisfaction … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …

satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas forced job changes do not affect life satisfaction clearly. Using plant closures … satisfaction with family life. By investigating people's lives beyond their workplaces, our study complements research on the well …

retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long …-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in their life satisfaction when they retire. These results are robust to … including identity in the utility function, results from the empirical life satisfaction literature can be reconciled with the …

Previous studies find that past unemployment reduces life satisfaction even after reemployment for non-monetary reasons …