In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to control for individual unobservable heterogeneity … health we find evidence of a significant positive effect of current income on health. However, after controlling for …

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job … loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss … as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important …

satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how …

-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …

and Oswald, when we analyse life satisfaction in place of happiness, and when we measure development using GDP per capita … level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …

and Oswald, when we analyse life satisfaction in place of happiness, and when we measure development using GDP per capita … level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …

rationality of income expectations. In this paper we provide a novel contribution to this literature by examining the ability of … individuals to correctly predict their own future life satisfaction using longitudinal data for East Germans. The environment in … Germans significantly over-estimated the gains from reunification. As with the recent literature on income expectations, we …