Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia …, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer … from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …

Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia …, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer … from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …

Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working … (working fewer hours than desired), however, seems to only be of significance in Australia …

Nationally representative panel survey data for Australia and Germany are used to investigate the impact of working … of such effects are larger in Germany. Underemployment (working fewer hours than desired), however, seems to only be of … significance in Australia …