Search Results - subject:"Income comparisons"

How Do Spouses Share their Full Income ? Identification of the Sharing Rule Using Self-Reported Income

Kalugina, Ekaterina; Radtchenko, Natalia; Sofer, Catherine - HAL - 2006

The paper applies the collective model to the analysis of intra-household inequality using self-reported income scales. Starting from a collective model including household production, our key assumption is that the income level that household members report corresponds to their true income...

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How do spouses share their full income ? Identification of the sharing rule using self-reported income.

Kalugina, Ekaterina; Radtchenko, Natalia; Sofer, Catherine - Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 … - 2006

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Income-based measures of average well-being

Dowrick, Steve - 2004

-expectancy with income comparisons, and shows that the fixed-price indexes of real income, such as those in the Penn World Table …

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Income-based Measures of Average Well-being

Dowrick, Steve - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004

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Income Distribution and Subjective Happiness: A Survey

Senik, Claudia - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2009

inequality and income comparisons. It reviews the various channels that relate income distribution and subjective well-being. It … of some relevant other, and with regard to generic income distribution. Concerning income comparisons, the general lesson … is that it is useful to distinguish status effects from signal effects: income comparisons hurt, but they may also …

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Economic Satisfaction and Income Rank in Small Neighbourhoods

Clark, Andrew E.; Kristensen, Nicolai; … - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2008

We contribute to the literature on well-being and comparisons by appealing to new Danish data dividing the country up into around 9,000 small neighbourhoods. Administrative data provides us with the income of every person in each of these neighbourhoods. This income information is matched to...

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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and their Welfare Effects

Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper provides unheard direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect on subjective well-being. It also evaluates the relative importance of different types of benchmarks. Dynamic comparisons outweigh static ones. Internal benchmarks are more important than external reference...

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Problems in Measuring Economic Progress

Petrulis, Mindaugas - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1971) 2

In regional income comparisons, relative and absolute measures sometimes produce apparently contradictory results …

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