Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We … investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms …

This paper analyses the influence of job discretion on employees' subjective well-being (SWB) from a gender …

. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income … poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being …

Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective well-being - life satisfaction and emotional well-being - separately to …In this paper, we shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well-being … obtain a more comprehensive view of the subjective impact of workfare jobs. Our results show that the life satisfaction of …

how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel … data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on …. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …

how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel … data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on …. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …

increasing attention. Although many studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for subjective well-being …, they overwhelmingly focus on life satisfaction as the cognitive dimension of well-being. Little is known about the … emotional antecedents and consequences of unemployment. We thus investigate the impact of unemployment on emotional well-being …