What contributes to life satisfaction intransitional Romania?

• This paper analyzes life satisfaction in Romania in 2001, 12 years after the collapse of communism and the beginning of the transition into a market economy. Using a survey of 1770 individuals, we find that our results are very similar to studies in Western Europe and the US. Life satisfaction increases with housing standard, health status, economic situation, education, trusting other people, and living in the countryside, and decreases with rising unemployment. However, life satisfaction is lower than in Western countries with about 750f the people in the sample being not at all satisfied or quite dissatisfied with their life in general. A policy discussion concludes the paper.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

general life satisfaction; subjective well-being; domain specific satisfaction;Romania; transition economy

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

rap (subject category)