Using eight waves of the European Social Survey, we analysed how the local unemployment rate influences the well-being disadvantages of the unemployed. We estimate region fixed effects and slopes models that, unlike the standard region fixed effects approach, provide an unbiased estimate of the...

Subjective health status and migration are critical issues in healthcare policy. There are many health challenges to resolve and at the same time, migration has reached to historic highs, leading to different views among immigrants and natives, and policy makers. Our research focuses on the...

The thoughts that an individual has about the future contribute substantially to their life satisfaction in a positive or negative direction. This is a result found via five different methods, some of which control for personality and disposition and the potential endogeneity of thoughts and...