observed regional pattern of life satisfaction reflects macroeconomic fundamentals, where labor market conditions play a … "satisfaction gap" between East and West Germany can be attributed to differing macroeconomic conditions. Moreover, we argue that it …

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 …

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 …

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 …