health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent … pandemic and two lockdowns on the mental health and subjective well-being of German workers. Employing an event-study design … of well-being in certain areas of life, such as satisfaction with the job and with leisure, which are negatively affected …

We provide novel evidence on how the COVID-19 global health and economic crisis is affecting overall life satisfaction …-specific satisfaction during the COVID-19 outbreak, except satisfaction with health. These declines coincide with the introduction of a … life satisfaction almost twice as large as those who do not report any income loss. …

income distribution. However, it has become increasingly recognised, both at the academic and political level, that focusing … purely on income provides a limited picture of social progress. We illustrate how ex-ante policy evaluation can be performed … in terms of richer concepts of individual well-being, such as subjective life satisfaction and equivalent incomes. Our …

health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent …Der Beitrag untersucht die Auswirkungen der Covid-19-Pandemie und zweier Lockdowns auf die psychische Gesundheit und … das subjektive Wohlbefinden von Beschäftigten in Deutschland. Hierzu wird mit Daten eines monatlichen Panels von …

To analyze well-being effects of minimum wages, the introduction of a minimum wage in Germany in 2015 is used as a …, job, and pay satisfaction between those who are affected by the reform according to their pre-intervention wages and those … satisfaction by 0.10 standard deviations (0.15 points on a ten-point Likert scale). Positive effects last at least until one year …

reform also introduced incentives for paternal leave taking. Income effects, fathers' involvement, and social norms … German mothers experience decreasing life satisfaction. …

pronounced for male unemployed in west Germany. The effect is driven by income and income satisfaction, but not by the …Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … rates. However, little is known about the reforms' effect on individual life satisfaction of unemployed workers. This study …

children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR … positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is driven by a … positive development of personality, health factors, schooling or labor market outcomes. Our results suggest that the increase …

life satisfaction of the total population and the subpopulation of drinkers, while life satisfaction of nondrinkers is …