paper overviews happiness and satisfaction studies on income, work and family life domains with a particular attention to …. -- life satisfaction ; happiness ; transition economies … differences seems to be a result of uncertainty and fast changing conditions in transitional settings. The terms "happiness" and …

increasing unhappiness which accompanied the transition process, including deteriorating public goods, rising inequality, income … satisfaction differentials between transition and non-transition economies. In this paper, I specifically examine the life … satisfaction gap between post-socialist and advanced countries and the role of political institutions in explaining this gap. My …

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 …'s political war of 2007 may have mired the country's positive life satisfaction experiences related to EU membership. We also show …

migrants from transition economies. We contribute to the literature by showing that in addition to increasing household income …, migration enhances subjective well-being and satisfaction with freedom. The results are robust to sensitivity checks …