TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Georgellis, Yannis
AU  - Clark, Andrew E.
AU  - Apergis, Emmanuel
AU  - Robinson, Catherine
        TI  - Occupational Status and Life Satisfaction in the UK: The Miserable Middle?
        PY  - 2022/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15360
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15360
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - occupational status
KW  - life satisfaction
KW  - occupational mobility
        ER  -