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 …

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to …

This paper asks to what extent life satisfaction among immigrants remains similar to that in their country of origin … satisfaction from the country of origin is strong for migrants from developed countries and close to zero for migrants from …

individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is possible to assess these latter gains from matching. We introduce a two …

, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what is happening to the incomes of others. An increase in the incomes …

Lang (2019). The classical OLS and ordered probit analysis of self-reported life satisfaction of employees from 32 European … satisfaction, especially when controlling for satisfaction of basic needs. Quantile regression analysis brings additional insights … needs satisfaction variables are included in the model. …