Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … panel LS regressions with individual fixed effects, none of the income variables was significant for the highly educated …

We use British panel data to explore the link between occupational status and life satisfaction. We find puzzling … satisfaction scores than that of employees in either low- or high-status occupations. This puzzle disappears in panel data: the … satisfaction of any man rises as he moves up the status ladder. The culprit seems to be immobility: the miserable middle is caused …

The paper examines the link between workplace disability (WD) and job satisfaction (JS) in Britain using linked data …

on individual panel data for Germany, we find that they are overly optimistic when we compare their predicted life … satisfaction with their actual life satisfaction five years later on. This overoptimism also holds for those entrepreneurs who … reflected in higher working hours than desired and the drop in leisure satisfaction …

We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality … traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and … punishment, is strong in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism increases the …

prominent events – is also to discover for life satisfaction before and after retirement in Germany …Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society … concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … public sector the sign of the coefficient changes.The results for eastern Germany are different with respect to satisfaction … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …

interdependently evaluated by panel estimates of society's subjective well-being.The new interdependent 2DGAP measure thereby provides … estimates. The analyses are based on the German Socio-Economic Panel with 21 waves and robust fixed effects estimates as well as …

-2008). SOEP is the only panel survey worldwide in which data on life satisfaction have been obtained from parents and an adequate …There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have … grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un …