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Inequality and Happiness : When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2010
social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136696
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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. - CESifo - 2010
social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671705
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Direct Evidence for Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being Across Reference Groups
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021
This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315521
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel : Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War
van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137879
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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Hufe, Paul - 2018
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912680
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Biased Perceptions of Income Inequality and Redistribution
Engelhardt, Carina - 2014
When based on perceived rather than on objective income distributions, the Meltzer-Richards hypothesis and the POUM hypothesis work quite well empirically: there exists a positive link between perceived inequality or perceived upward mobility and the extent of redistribution in democratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051387
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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
van Praag, B.M.S - 2021
It is argued that the concept of well–being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the referencing process into account. The reference effect depends on how frequently individuals compare with others and on the degree of social transparency in society. In this paper we employ the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316230
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011
most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132796
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Globalization and Income Inequality Revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link between globalization and income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315438
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Political Capitalism : The Interaction between Income Inequality, Economic Freedom and Democracy
Krieger, Tim - 2016
In this contribution we study the relationship between income inequality and economic freedom for a panel of 100 countries for the 1971-2010 period. From a panel causality study we find that income inequality has a negative causal effect on economic freedom, while causation does not run in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999751