better off has a clear impact on the job satisfaction of West German full-time employees. Two contrary effects can be …, downward comparison is of minor importance for job satisfaction …

would benefit women. Using life satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we conduct an empirical … generate a control group of non-widowed women. The average level of life satisfaction in the control group serves as a … reference to measure the degree of adaptation to widowhood. In the second step, the life satisfaction trajectories of both …

satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct …

(SOEP), the analysis shows a common, and quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and …

shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be … characterized by three age stages. In the first stage, life satisfaction declines until approximately the fifth life decade. In the …

-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel survey, the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the present study conducts an … empirical test of this assumption. Our matching-based estimation reveals satisfaction trajectories of women who experience the … death of their spouse and identifies the causal effect of widowhood. The average level of satisfaction in a control group of …

-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel survey, the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the present study conducts an … empirical test of this assumption. Our matching-based estimation reveals satisfaction trajectories of women who experience the … death of their spouse and identifies the causal effect of widowhood. The average level of satisfaction in a control group of …