Economic disruption in East Germany at the time of unification resulted in a noticeable drop in life satisfaction. By … the late 1990s East Germany's life satisfaction had recovered to about its 1990 level, and its shortfall relative to West … Germany was slightly less than that before unification. In West Germany life satisfaction was fairly constant before …

Throughout Germany real income has trended upward since 1991, but life satisfaction has risen in the East, fallen in … Germany have life satisfaction about equal to that of Germans in that region. Trends and differences in overall life … the West, and been fairly stable for Germany as a whole. By 1997 the initial excess of West over East Germany was cut by …

The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using … satisfaction is on average significantly lower in East than in West German federal states and that part of the raw East-West gap is …

The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using … satisfaction is on average significantly lower in East than in West German federal states and that part of the raw East-West gap is …

The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using … satisfaction is on average significantly lower in East than in West German federal states and that part of the raw East-West gap is …

The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using … satisfaction is on average significantly lower in East than in West German federal states and that part of the raw East-West gap is …

unemployment. In total, approximately half of "satisfaction gap" between East and West Germany can be attributed to differing … macroeconomic conditions. In contrast, the comparably high levels of life satisfaction in Northern Germany are driven mostly by …This paper examines regional differences in subjective well-being (SWB) in Germany. Inferential statistics indicate a …

"satisfaction gap" between East and West Germany can be attributed to differing macroeconomic conditions. Moreover, we argue that it …This paper examines regional differences in subjective well-being (SWB) in Germany. Inferential statistics indicate a … diminishing but still significant gap between East and West Germany, but also differing levels of SWB within both parts. The …

"satisfaction gap" between East and West Germany can be attributed to differing macroeconomic conditions. Moreover, the effects of … comparably high levels of life satisfaction in Northern Germany are driven mostly by couples and go along with significantly …This paper examines regional differences in subjective well-being (SWB) in Germany. Inferential statistics indicate a …

"satisfaction gap" between East and West Germany can be attributed to differing macroeconomic conditions. Moreover, the effects of … comparably high levels of life satisfaction in Northern Germany are driven mostly by couples and go along with significantly …This paper examines regional differences in subjective well-being (SWB) in Germany. Inferential statistics indicate a …