@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp15360,
            	author={Georgellis, Yannis and Clark, Andrew E. and Apergis, Emmanuel and Robinson, Catherine},
            	title={Occupational Status and Life Satisfaction in the UK: The Miserable Middle?},
            	year={2022},
	month={Jun},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={15360},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15360},
	abstract={We use British panel data to explore the link between occupational status and life satisfaction. We find puzzling evidence, for men, of a U-shaped relationship in cross-section data: employees in medium-status occupations report lower life satisfaction scores than that of employees in either low- or high-status occupations. This puzzle disappears in panel data: the satisfaction of any man rises as he moves up the status ladder. The culprit seems to be immobility: the miserable middle is caused by men who (in our data) have always been in medium-status occupations. There is overall little evidence of a link between occupational status and life satisfaction for women.},
	keywords={occupational status;life satisfaction;occupational mobility},
            }