Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His …-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel survey, the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the present study conducts an … empirical test of this assumption. Our matching-based estimation reveals satisfaction trajectories of women who experience the …

concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i …-being depending more on relative satisfaction than on absolute levels of income. This finding holds even after controlling for other ….e. the gaps between the individual's income and the incomes of all individuals richer/poorer than him. Operationalizing both …

attaches to income comparisons with reference groups, the lower his or her life satisfaction. Income relative to neighbors and … colleagues only affected life satisfaction when the respondent perceived such reference groups to be relevant in income …Despite the relatively extensive research on pay levels and the consequences of income disparities, little is known …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …