reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by measuring the impact of changes in working-hours on life satisfaction … in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We …

relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on the one hand and employment status and retirement, on the other, using … happier, experience less stress and anger, and have higher job satisfaction than other employees. Using statistical matching …

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end … selfemployment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure … for self-reported physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self …

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …-employment exit) brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …

Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and … unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when such policies prolong unemployment, the net effect on national …

Di Tella et al. (2001) show that temporary fluctuations in life satisfaction (LS) are correlated with macroeconomic …

Di Tella et al. (2001) show that temporary fluctuations in life satisfaction (LS) are correlated with macroeconomic …

, subjective measures of job quality have mostly bounced back between 1997 and 2005. Overall job satisfaction is higher in 2005 … recent years. -- Employment ; unemployment ; self-employment ; life satisfaction ; job quality ; job satisfaction …