%0 Report
        %A Georgellis, Yannis
%A Clark, Andrew E.
%A Apergis, Emmanuel
%A Robinson, Catherine
        %T Occupational Status and Life Satisfaction in the UK: The Miserable Middle?
        %D 2022
        %8 2022 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 15360
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15360
        %X 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.
        %K occupational status
%K life satisfaction
%K occupational mobility