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 …

a lack of a structure in daily life. Unlike life satisfaction, unemployment leaves affective well-being mostly … importance of the social norms to work and be self-reliant for the life satisfaction of the unemployed, as well as by studies … showing the positive life satisfaction effect of retirement on unemployed workers. Based on this strong evidence for identity …

health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent … of well-being in certain areas of life, such as satisfaction with the job and with leisure, which are negatively affected …

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 …

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 …

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 …