We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the … life satisfaction in Bulgaria and had a positive but statistically insignificant effect in Romania. One explanation is that … context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern …

We aim to clarify how objective wellbeing in Romania, as expressed by statistical indicators, evolved during two and a … investigated their evolution for five CEE countries: Romania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, to which we added a … western european country - Germany -, as a banchmark for comparison. We conclude that Romania's welfare development …

paper overviews happiness and satisfaction studies on income, work and family life domains with a particular attention to … "life satisfaction" should be distinguished, when evaluating the successfulness of transformational period and socio …. -- life satisfaction ; happiness ; transition economies …

well-being measures (satisfaction with life and subjective relative income position) against objective measures of welfare … based on consumption and assets. It uses the different formulations of life satisfaction in the survey to test robustness to … consumption or assets. Life satisfaction, by contrast, is highly correlated with objective and subjective measures of household …