In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to … the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …

This paper asks to what extent life satisfaction among immigrants remains similar to that in their country of origin … satisfaction from the country of origin is strong for migrants from developed countries and close to zero for migrants from …

underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the … relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on the one hand and employment status and retirement, on the other, using … Gallup World Poll data for several European countries and the United States. We find that voluntary part-time workers are …

unemployment rate). We find that the satisfaction of unemployed people (relative to employed people) is lower when the unemployment … regarding the happiness scores. Our results do not support the “social norm of unemployment” hypothesis that states that the …

preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied with life pre-referendum, with both misery (life satisfaction below … preferences enjoyed a life satisfaction rise of 0.16 points, while there was a drop of 0.15 points for those preferring to remain …

In recent years, the idea that public policy should maximize satisfaction, happiness or some other non-material measure … subjective life satisfaction (SLS) in the European Union using data from the most recent, 2008/2009, wave of the European Values … incomes can go a long way in improving citizens' life satisfaction …

Trends in life satisfaction are examined across 15 European countries employing a modified version of Kendall's Tau …