of our analyses is on the pattern of life, job and health satisfaction over time and the influence of unemployment rates … more satisfied with their lives, jobs and health when unemployment is rising around them. At the same time, the overall …. Interestingly, we get similar though somewhat weaker results when looking at job and health satisfaction. Hence, though the direct …

memberships of political, welfare, health or more leisure time orientated groups. These activities have different impacts on male …

immigrants' growing aspirations and expectations that follow from their habituation to better conditions in their host country …

with twelve concrete health impairments. Specifically, we analyze whether subjective well-being predicts longer survival in … decrease survival in our sample, even controlling for the severity of health problems. But our results cast doubt on strong … significant interactions between substantive health impairments and life satisfaction. Higher subjective well-being may keep you …

Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … in SWB in mid-life. Explanations of the non-linear age-SWB relationship include the notion of unmet aspirations and the … income and social relationships vary with age in a wave-like fashion, while the negative marginal effect of poor health …