well-being (SWB). We define three dimensions of good governance at the municipal level: accountability, government … distinguish four potential drivers of SWB: socio-demographic factors, material conditions, quality of life and municipal … governance. Individual QoL variables, such as social connections or health status are major drivers of SWB. To a lesser extent …

previously published for other countries are generally supported. Unemployment has a strongly depressing effect on happiness. A … higher income level raises happiness, however, only to a small extent. …

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty …. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people’s SWB is negatively correlated … relationship between aggregate poverty and SWB is more salient in the upper segments of the income distribution and is robust to …

Lang (2019). The classical OLS and ordered probit analysis of self-reported life satisfaction of employees from 32 European … countries show results consistent with the previous literature. Analysis of the happiness index - a measure of hedonic well … show that the observed income effect on subjective well-being is much weaker for the happiness index than for life …