The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … show that adolescents and young adults who report higher life satisfaction or positive affect grow up to earn significantly … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is …

Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income … of multidimensional polarization we extend the income dimension by time, a pre-requisite and fundamental resource of any …) polarization compensation between time and income, parameters of a CES-type subjective well-being function, is evaluated …

ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the …

The main purpose of the present paper is to disentangle the mix-up of the notions of success and satisfaction which is … relationship and measurement. We show that satisfaction contains success as one component, and that both coincide under the … satisfaction. In the context of the discussion of both notions we also address their relationship to different types of luck. …

zusammenfassende Bewertung der nachhaltigen Zufriedenheit des Gründers mit der Selbstständigkeit. Unter Verwendung eines großzahligen … durchgehend als wichtigste Größe für die nachhaltige Zufriedenheit. Die empirische Analyse wendet Logitmodelle an, ergänzende … thereby implies the entrepreneur's overall satisfaction with his or her self-employment. Using a large sample of 1,332 start …

self-reported satisfaction regarding their start-up. Our study identifies a new facet of procedural utility and offers new … entrepreneurs that “cannot get satisfaction” with their start-up—not because their start-up fails to deliver financial returns, but …-financial incentives of entrepreneurs. While financial success is the most important determinant of start-up satisfaction, achievement of …

, and overall life satisfaction? Labor supply and corresponding demand are fundamental to production. Labor economists know …

This paper uses Japanese data which includes measures of self-declared satisfaction, reference-group income, and the … colleagues, and compare their incomes more. The relationship between satisfaction and others' income is negative, and more … cell-mean income in explaining satisfaction, and would arguably make a useful addition to many existing surveys. …

This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …