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Reduction of income inequality and subjective well-being in Europe
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - 2014
Using four waves of the European Social Survey (179,273 individuals from 29 countries) the authors analyze the association of reduction of income inequality by governmental taxes and transfers (redistribution) with subjective well-being. Their results provide evidence that people in Europe are...
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The French unhappiness puzzle: The cultural dimension of happiness
Senik, Claudia - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 379-401
This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of similar affluence …. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle … contrast, immigrants are not less happy in France than they are elsewhere in Europe, but their happiness fall with the passage …
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Intergenerational mobility and subjective well-being—Evidence from the general social survey
Nikolaev, Boris; Burns, Ainslee - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 53 (2014) C, pp. 82-96
self-reported level of happiness and subjective health while upward mobility is associated with positive outcomes in …
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Occupational Status and Individual Subjective Well-Being in Italy
Ponzo, Michela - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2011) 3
evidence provided in the literature on happiness. Among our new findings, the type of employment and associated contractual … happier than private employees (even when controlling for income). The data show that the reported level of happiness is lower …
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Ignorance is not bliss: On the role of education in subjective well-being
Yakovlev, Pavel; Leguizamon, Susane - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 6, pp. 806-815
This study estimates the impact of education on self-reported happiness across 50 American states using the recently …
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Do higher child care subsidies improve parental well-being? Evidence from Quebec's family policies
Brodeur, Abel; Connolly, Marie - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 1-16
In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in child care subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Quebec implemented a generous program providing $5-a-day child care to children under the age of 5. By 2007, the percentage of children...
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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 91 (2013) C, pp. 75-92
We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and subjective well-being, and that there are systematic differences in this regard between countries that are characterized by a high or, respectively, low level of actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048143
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Environment, Well-Being, and Experienced Preference
Welsch, Heinz; Ferreira, Susana - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 7 (2014) 3-4, pp. 205-239
Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the use of subjective well-being data in environmental economics. This article discusses the conceptual underpinnings of using such data as a tool for preference elicitation and non-market valuation. Given the connection of those data to the notion of...
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Causal linkages between work and life satisfaction and their determinants in a structural VAR approach
Coad, Alex; Binder, Martin - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 2, pp. 263-268
Work and life satisfaction depend on a number of pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors at the workplace and determine these in turn. We analyze these causal linkages using a structural vector autoregression approach for a German sample of the working populace from 1984 to 2008, finding that...
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Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data
Wunder, Christoph; Wiencierz, Andrea; Schwarze, Johannes; … - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 1, pp. 154-167
This paper applies semiparametric regression models using penalized splines to investigate the profile of well-being over the life span. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the analysis shows a common, and quite similar,...
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