Underemployment has gained attention in recent years because of its effects on health and
well-being (life satisfaction), it is a widespread phenomenon in the labor force that affects not …

Although the negative association between unemployment and life satisfaction is well-
documented, much theoretical and empirical controversy surrounds the question of how …

Using panel data from the National Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment
Survey (ENEMDU) for Ecuador, we analyze the outcomes of life and job satisfaction whether …

In this paper, the authors take subjective well-being as an indicator of people's livelihood.
Using 2003–2010 data from the Chinese General Social Survey, the authors apply various …

This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment
and subjective well-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well …

We test the existence of an endogenous relationship between well-being and employment
for US individuals. To that end, we use a simultaneous equation generalized Probit model …

There is a large literature showing that unemployment reduces people's well‐being. Yet little
is known about the reverse possibility, namely that well‐being itself may influence …

This paper explores the relationship between informal employment and the subjective well-
being of informal employees and self-employed workers in Mexico. The main hypothesis is …

The recent recession has generated a tremendous increase in unemployment rates in
Spain. In this paper we use a very rich repeated cross-section dataset on workers' job …

Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective wellbeing. Using
panel quantile regression techniques, we analyse to what extent the negative impact of …