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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey - 2008
-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464427
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Inequality and economic growth : European versus U.S. experiences
Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - 2003
the U.S. We review insights from the recent macroeconomic literature on inequality and growth and use these insights to … shed light on the growth and inequality trends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509368
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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human wellbeing, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171696
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Partnership, gender roles and the well-being cost of unemployment
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2012
-being. -- unemployment ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; Day Reconstruction Method ; identity ; partnership ; gender roles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621729
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Socialism, identity and the well-being of unemployed women
Günther, Tom; Conradi, Jakob; Hetschko, Clemens - 2024
Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms, especially for men. We add to this literature by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551530
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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012
happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and … indirect effects that carry the influence from happiness to income. Significant mediating pathways include a higher probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683363
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398011
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Note on income taxation and occupational choice
Sheshinski, Eytan - 2003
With varying aptitudes in different occupations, individuals typically maximize income by specializing in one occupation which promises the highest income. Due to numerous labor market imperfections and uncertainties, the choice of best occupation is accomplished with only partial success. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506232
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On the frequency of interior Cournot-Nash equilibria in a public good economy
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Peters, Wolfgang - 2003
In a public good economy the distribution of initial income is an important determinant of how many individuals contribute to the public good. For the case when all individuals have identical preferences in this paper a simple formula is derived that describes the proportion of all income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508069
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Keeping Up with the Jansens : Causal Peer Effects on Household Spending, Beliefs and Happiness
Rooij, Maarten van; Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
-post employment outcomes. Finally, believing that one earns more than peers causally leads to large positive effects on happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486199