For Better, for Worse: Life Satisfaction Consequences of Migration 1

By G. F. De jong, A. Chamratrithirong, Quynh Tran. 2002

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Life (Dis)Satisfaction and the Intention to Migrate: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe (2014, background): “[16] study the life satisfaction of migrants in Thailand before and after migration and argue that it is typically decreasing after moving to a different place, while Easterlin & Zimmerman [22] argue that migrants from Eastern to Western Germany are relatively less satisfied than the locals living i”
Economic Migration and Happiness: Comparing Immigrants’ and Natives’ Happiness Gains From Income (2011, background): “Research on internal migration suggests that migrants within Thailand were indeed less satisfied with their lives after migration (De Jong et al. 2002; see Michalos 1996 on internal migration more generally).”
The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness (2014, background): “…a small literature on migration and happiness, showing unanimously (and unsurprisingly) that immigrants are less happy than natives, controlling for a series of observable characteristics and circumstances (see Stillman et al. 2012, Bartram 2011, Safi 2010, Baltatescu 2007, or De Jong et al. 2002).”