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. …

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 …

: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction …

Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same …

the new UK Understanding Society panel survey. The randomised experiments relate to job- and life-satisfaction questions … find a highly significant impact of these design features on the distributions of reported satisfaction in various life … domains and some important impacts on the findings from conventional cross-section models of satisfaction. …