children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal …-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …

Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective well-being - life satisfaction and emotional well-being - separately to … obtain a more comprehensive view of the subjective impact of workfare jobs. Our results show that the life satisfaction of …

evidence that EPL has significant indirect (cross-)effects on life satisfaction via the mediators. There are no indications for …

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 …

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

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

creates non-pecuniary, psychological costs. We quantify these non-pecuniary losses by using the life satisfaction approach. In … pure pecuniary costs of unemployment for men (women).This confirms the high value of work for life satisfaction. …

We estimate household equivalence scales using income satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We extend … reference effects in the determination of income satisfaction. We show that this adjustment helps to overcome a bias causing an … overestimation of adults' and an underestimation of children's needs-based equivalence weights. Our results indicate that controlling …