for which they are overqualified, and may experience unhappiness compared with natives, other immigrants, and non-migrants … increases the incomes, life satisfaction, and freedom perceptions of those who move. Credibly assessing whether leaving …

satisfaction of old people. This finding is driven by the initial 'migration shock' – inflows that occurred in the first two years … Europe to the UK. We study how this migrant inflow affected life satisfaction of native residents in England and Wales … Scheme, we find that higher local level immigration increased life satisfaction of young people and decreased life …

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 … results imply that both macroeconomic factors and the rule of law explain the overall life satisfaction differential between …

positive effect of the migration of daughters on parents' health and life satisfaction, but no such beneficial effects when …We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel …

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 …

nations. Using gross bilateral international migration flows and a discrete choice model in which everyone in the world …

, migration enhances subjective well-being and satisfaction with freedom. The results are robust to sensitivity checks …The extant literature has focused on migration's consequences for the receiving countries. In this paper, we ask a … different but important question: how much do migrants gain from moving to another country? Using Gallup World Poll data and a …

Previous research on the determinants of international migration has largely focused on objective factors, such as … income. We instead use subjective well-being (SWB) to explain international migration desires, an expressed willingness to … migrate. We find that individuals with higher SWB have lower international migration desires. At the individual level, the SWB-migration …