Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the non-pecuniary life satisfaction … analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …

Labour market policy, subjective well-being, reemployment stability, Europe, unemployment benefits, unemployment … of the unemployed as well as employment stability once the unemployment spell is finished. In the first research stage …, the treatment effect of participation in the German work creation scheme One-Euro-Jobs on life satisfaction and …

control for factors that influence personal choice, we re-examine the determinants of female employment in Europe. The results … employment …