The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The … 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 …

characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities … areas with a larger proportion of own ethnic group promotes well-being. We find that satisfaction is lower among minorities …, ceteris paribus, but area concentration is associated with higher life satisfaction for certain groups. We discuss the …

-unification - not only in satisfaction but also its determinants. While people living in the western part of Germany report somewhat … effects between the two German regions but similar between West Germany and the UK. First of all, satisfaction with life is …: overall unemployment is positively related to satisfaction and regional unemployment in West Germany is negatively related …

Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective well-being (or "happiness"). In the present paper … these findings by examining the heterogeneous unemployment effects over the quantiles of satisfaction with various life …

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 …

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross … a) long-term panel data and estimation with individual fixed effects, b) regional GDP per capita with a higher variation …. Using long-term panel data for Germany and the United Kingdom, we do not find robust evidence for a relationship between GDP …

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. …

individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring … examination of the welfare effects of the spring and autumn transitions for the UK and Germany. Using individual-level data and a … regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that …

on individual life satisfaction. Controling for personal characteristics we apply innovative instrumental variable … individual well-being. Additionally, we also find that income and future job chances are the most important drivers of happiness …

individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring … examination of the welfare effects of the spring and autumn transitions for the UK and Germany. Using individual-level data and a … regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that …