The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the … of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly … for income evaluations turns inward. "Financial hardship", the shortfall from one's own previous peak income, takes over …

Working in non-profit organizations has been shown to be good for individuals' satisfaction with their jobs despite … lower incomes. This paper explores the impact of nonprofit work on life satisfaction more general for the British Household … happy. Shadow prices peg this effect at around 22.000 GBP p.a., nearly the average amount of equivalent net household income …

Work and life satisfaction depends on a number of pecuniary and nonpecuniary factors at the workplace and determines …

capable of capturing job satisfaction in conjunction with the income and distributional effects of offshoring. Contrary to a … centering around possible negative employment and income effects for the low(er) skilled in advanced economies. Although … sociological and psychological research has shown that income falls far too short when it comes to subjective well-being (SWB), the …

investigates the effect of job loss and becoming unemployed, another field of study focuses on the determinants of job satisfaction … evolving around employment conditions, self-employment, and potential public sector satisfaction premiums. A smaller part of …

We quantify the value of changes in life circumstances in Germany following reunification. To this end, we develop and … implement a fixed-effect estimator for ordinal life satisfaction in the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find strong negative … effects on life satisfaction from being recently fired, losing a spouse through either death or separation and time spent in …

We quantify the value of changes in life circumstances in Germany following reunification. To this end, we develop and … implement a fixed-effect estimator for ordinal life satisfaction in the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find strong negative … effects on life satisfaction from being recently fired, losing a spouse through either death or separation and time spent in …

significant interactions between substantive health impairments and life satisfaction. Higher subjective well-being may keep you … this paper we assess for the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data set from 1991-2008 how life satisfaction interacts … with twelve concrete health impairments. Specifically, we analyze whether subjective well-being predicts longer survival in …

. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental … conclusions of previous research - including earlier work on the effects upon human well-being of higher income. …

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … for other reference groups, such as neighbours. Work-related income comparisons are mostly upwards and there is a strong …