analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research … investigates the effect of job loss and becoming unemployed, another field of study focuses on the determinants of job satisfaction … evolving around employment conditions, self-employment, and potential public sector satisfaction premiums. A smaller part of …

status is related to time use and cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being. We find that unemployed … persons report substantially lower levels of life satisfaction than employed persons. When looking at specific types of …-weighted average affective well-being over the entire waking time of the day, our results suggest that the benefit of having to spend …

until leaving welfare status. We utilize life satisfaction to track such factors. The German PASS-ADIAB dataset combines … covariates, we find that life satisfaction of in-work benefit recipientsis negatively associated with job search, whereas the … life satisfaction. …

Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective well-being (or "happiness"). In the present paper … unemployed. A similar but stronger effect of unemployment is found for a broad mental well-being variable (GHQ-12). For happy and … these findings by examining the heterogeneous unemployment effects over the quantiles of satisfaction with various life …