For representative German panel data, we show that voluntary job switching leads to relatively high levels of life … satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion … interacts negatively with this effect in life satisfaction. Analysing time-use data and well-being indicators for various areas …

-driven workplace relocations, we employ a Difference-in-Differences framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) from 2010 to 2019. Our results show that an involuntary increase in commuting distance reduces life satisfaction by 3 … increased mobile coverage during commutes partially mitigates the decline in life satisfaction but exacerbates the negative …

Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective well-being - life satisfaction and emotional well-being - separately to … obtain a more comprehensive view of the subjective impact of workfare jobs. Our results show that the life satisfaction of …

panel data. We compare non-employed individuals after plant closures with employed people regarding both income and time use … higher satisfaction with free time, while time spent on hobbies increases to a lesser extent than home production …. Additionally, satisfaction with family life increases, which may be a hidden benefit of being unemployed. In contrast, satisfaction …

union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed …Using panel data from 1985 to 2019, we provide the first comprehensive investigation of the relationship between trade … time-variant IV suggests no causal impact of individual union membership on job satisfaction. Finally, using different …

-Economic Panel (SOEP, 2019), we estimate the effect of working in the same occupation and/or industry on life satisfaction as well as … the satisfaction differences between work-linked and non-work-linked partners. Using data from the German Socio … satisfaction with four areas of life: income, work, family and leisure. In the process, we employ pooled OLS estimations and …

pooled mean group estimator (SPMG) to deal with these features. Using this new panel estimator and a dataset spanning almost …

-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal …

Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the nonpecuniary life satisfaction … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …