-unification - not only in satisfaction but also its determinants. While people living in the western part of Germany report somewhat … effects between the two German regions but similar between West Germany and the UK. First of all, satisfaction with life is …: overall unemployment is positively related to satisfaction and regional unemployment in West Germany is negatively related …

examine the impact of the Great Recession on subjective well-being (as measured by life satisfaction) and attempt to identify … disparate effects by age. We find that those approaching retirement age (aged 55 to 64) experienced reduced life-satisfaction … after the recession, whereas younger working-aged adults did not. The disparate effects by age cannot be explained by income …

of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly … constant. But in a recession, as people increasingly have difficulty meeting their fixed financial obligations, the benchmark …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income …

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 …