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Income and happiness across Europe: do reference values matter?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2007

Using data from the European Social Survey (ESS), we examine the link between income and subjective well-being. We find that, for the whole sample of nineteen European countries, although income is positively correlated with both happiness and life satisfaction, reference income exerts a...

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Income and Happiness Across Europe : Do Reference Values Matter?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2021

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Effects of public sector wages on corruption : wage inequality matters

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Lokshin, Michael; Kolchin, Vladimir - Weltbankgruppe - 2021

The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The … results show that wage inequality in the public sector is an important determinant of the effectiveness of anti-corruption … policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage …

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What explains life satisfaction? : relative income or rank income? : the case of Ecuador

Acosta-González, Hugo Nicolás; Marcenaro Gutiérrez, … - In: Applied economics letters 29 (2022) 3, pp. 195-199

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The effect of income satisfaction on the relationship between income class and pro-environment behavior

Du, Shifeng; Guohua, Cao; Huang, Yanmin - In: Applied economics letters 31 (2024) 1, pp. 61-64

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How does anti-corruption campaign affect the labour income share in China?

He, Zhen; Wang, Xiaolong; Yang, Liu - In: Applied economics letters 26 (2019) 16, pp. 1345-1348

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Trade Openness and Income Inequality : New Empirical Evidence

Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...

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