This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …

lifestyle have substantial and similar effects on life satisfaction. The results have negative implications for a widely … population has recorded substantial and apparently permanent changes in life satisfaction (Fujita and Diener, 2005; Headey, 2008a …

This paper uses concurrently and - for the first time - retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to … correlation of unemployment and subjective life satisfaction. It is found that unemployed individuals do not only report … significantly lower concurrent satisfaction, but also recall reduced satisfaction from past unemployment well, and retrospectively …

German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for … nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German … distribution of income has become more concentrated at the top, the concentration at the top of the multidimensional well …

observed regional pattern of life satisfaction reflects macroeconomic fundamentals, where labor market conditions play a … satisfaction gap between East and West Germany can be attributed to differing macroeconomic conditions. Moreover, the effects of … unemployment and income differ in size between regions such that one can assume increasing marginal disutility of unemployment. The …

A series of studies have suggested that changes in others' income may be perceived differently in post-transition and …' income divide the German nation. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany is negative (which is in line … with the "relative income" hypothesis) and slightly more marked in neighbourhoods that may be assumed to be places where …

In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and … effects social treadmill has on life satisfaction for humans with high income. A key result of the fixed-effect-regression is … the following: There is a significant effect relative income has on the contentment with life for affluent people, whereas …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over …

supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …-Kausalität kann angenommen werden. Zentrale Ergebnisse: Ein anfänglicher Anstieg der Zufriedenheit erhöht das individuelle Einkommen …This publication concentrates on the complex interplay between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction. Main areas of …