The death of a spouse is an extremely stressful life event that consequently causes a large drop in life satisfaction … belief in external control led to a considerably smaller decline in life satisfaction and higher scores in the year of the …

large loss of satisfaction experienced by individuals in old age. …

This paper uses concurrently and - for the first time - retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to … correlation of unemployment and subjective life satisfaction. It is found that unemployed individuals do not only report … significantly lower concurrent satisfaction, but also recall reduced satisfaction from past unemployment well, and retrospectively …

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. …

Socio-Economic Panel and estimate the substitution by a CES-utility function of general utility/satisfaction. Given this … multinomial logit based on time use diary data of the German Time Use Study 2001/02. One striking result for Germany: the … Substitution mit einer CES-Nutzenfunktion einer generellen Zufriedenheit. Mit dieser Qantifizierung können wir dann singuläre Zeit …

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 …