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Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness - Or Does It? A Reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wooden, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that economic well-being has a statistically significant … but only weak effect on happiness/subjective well-being (SWB). This view is based almost entirely on weak relationships …, Hungary and the Netherlands – to provide a reconsideration of the impact of economic wellbeing on happiness. The main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763522
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Survey Design and the Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing: An Experimental Analysis
Holford, Angus J.; Pudney, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We analyse the results of experiments on questionnaire design and interview mode in the first four waves (2008-11) of the UK Understanding Society Innovation Panel survey. The randomised experiments relate to job, health, income, leisure and overall life-satisfaction questions and vary the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125861
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"Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?" The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries
Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José Ernesto; Cristi, Oscar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to … translate economic growth into non-monetary wellbeing. We take into consideration that there is a feedback effect from monetary … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884143
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Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges
Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
on to exhibit recovery in mental wellbeing. Adaptation to severe disability, however, is shown to be incomplete. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703631
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Comparing Real Wage Rates
Ashenfelter, Orley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
A real wage rate is a nominal wage rate divided by the price of a good and is a transparent measure of how much of the good an hour of work buys. It provides an important indicator of the living standards of workers, and also of the productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884346
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World Income Inequality Databases: An Assessment of WIID and SWIID
Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959664
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Memorandum: Erfolgsbedingungen empirischer Wirtschaftsforschung und empirisch gestuetzter wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischer Beratung
Hauser, Richard; Wagner, Gert G.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998
Based on the hypothesis that microdata are of crucial importance for internationally competitiveeconomic research and scientific advice in economic and social policy, the authorsdevelop various proposals for an improved data supply for empirical work in Germany. Present shortcomings are mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761947
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Item Non-Response on Income and Wealth Questions
Riphahn, Regina T.; Serfling, Oliver - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of covariates with item non-response across outcomes? Second, can the informational value of surveys be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822669
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The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682961
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Tax Morale and Compliance Behavior: First Evidence on a Causal Link
Halla, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Recent literature on tax evasion emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior. As a consequence scholars aim to identify factors that shape this so-called tax morale. However, the causal link between tax morale and actual compliance behavior is not established...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506077