The happiness of international migrants: A review of research findings

M Hendriks - Migration Studies, 2015 - academic.oup.com
International migration that is motivated by the striving for a better life is growing explosively.
Migrants and policymakers would benefit from knowing whether migrants' outcomes reflect …

Happiness and 'economic migration': A comparison of Eastern European migrants and stayers

D Bartram - Migration studies, 2013 - academic.oup.com
One might expect economic migrants to experience an increase in happiness after
migration: life in wealthier countries might be better, particularly for migrants who succeed in …

What makes a satisfied immigrant? Host-country characteristics and immigrants' life satisfaction in eighteen European countries

I Kogan, J Shen, M Siegert - Journal of Happiness Studies, 2018 - Springer
Based on the data from six waves of the European Social Survey collected from 18
European countries between 2002 and 2012, we aimed at explaining the variation in …

Compared to whom? Inequality, social comparison, and happiness in the United States

AS Alderson, T Katz-Gerro - Social Forces, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We contribute to the literature on positional goods and subjective well-being by providing
new evidence on the following questions: Is the effect of income on subjective well-being …

Gender segregation, underemployment and subjective well-being in the UK labour market

D Kamerāde, H Richardson - Human Relations, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article argues that gender segregation influences patterns of underemployment and the
relationships that underemployment has with the subjective well-being of men and women …

A survey and a positive psychology intervention on French PhD student well-being

GAB Marais, R Shankland, P Haag… - … Journal of Doctoral …, 2018 - informingscience.org
Aim/Purpose: The present work focuses on French PhD students' well-being: an
understudied working population thus far, which impedes the development of evidence …

International determinants of subjective well-being: Living in a subjectively material world

P Diego-Rosell, R Tortora, J Bird - Journal of Happiness studies, 2018 - Springer
Researchers, policymakers, and the general public increasingly agree on the importance of
subjective well-being as an indicator of individual and societal welfare. A vast literature has …

In transit: The well-being of migrants from transition and post-transition countries

M Nikolova, C Graham - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2015 - Elsevier
The extant literature on migration and well-being has focused on migration's consequences
for the receiving countries. In this paper, we ask a different but important question: how much …

Wealth and happiness

C Senik - Oxford review of economic policy, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Does wealth accumulation impact subjective well-being? Within a country, household
wealth has been shown to improve individual well-being by providing a safety net of …

Life satisfaction among recent immigrants in Canada: comparisons to source-country and host-country populations

K Frank, F Hou, G Schellenberg - Journal of happiness studies, 2016 - Springer
Research examining how changes in life circumstances affect subjective well-being has
been dominated by set-point theory. New evidence challenges the assumptions of this …