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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. - 2010

social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find … satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; inequality ; income distribution ; redistribution ; political ideology ; justice ; fairness … ; World Values Survey …

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The subversive nature of inequality : subjective inequality perceptions and attitudes to social inequality

Kuhn, Andreas - 2016

further corroborated using various complementary measures of individuals' perception of the chances and risks associated with … an unequal distribution of economic resources, such as their perception of the chances of upward mobility. I finally show …

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Intergenerational mobility in the land of inequality

Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022

We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...

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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015

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...

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Group-specific redistribution, inequality, and subjective well-being in China

Deng, Peihua; Schöb, Ronnie - 2022

Using survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2018, this paper analyzes the relationship between income inequality, group-specific income redistribution, and subjective well-being among China's urban, rural, and migrant populations. Using narrowly defined reference...

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Distributive justice and social conflict in an AK model

Tsoukis, Christopher; Itaya, Jun-ichi - 2019

We introduce distributive justice into a simple model of growth and distribution. Two groups ("classes") of otherwise identical, capital-rich and capital-poor individuals ("capitalists") and ("workers") are in conflict over factor (labour-capital) shares. Capitalists' (workers') ideal labour...

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A matter of perspective : how experience shapes preferences for redistribution

Cassar, Lea; Klein, Arnd Heinrich - 2017

We investigate in a laboratory experiment if the experience of economic failure or success shapes people's preferences for redistribution beyond self-interest. Subjects generated a high or a low income either through a lottery or through an effort-based tournament. A sub-set of subjects could...

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Equity and efficiency when needs differ

Berg, Kristoffer; Håvarstein, Morten; Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2024

There is no consensus on how to measure social welfare and inequality when households have different needs. As we show, a dilemma emerges between holding households responsible for their needs or compensating them. This dilemma is of first-order importance for social welfare, but generally plays...

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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel : effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dimiṭri; … - 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 … expected. -- happiness ; subjective well-being ; financial satisfaction ; Israel ; religion ; immigration ; terrorism …

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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty

Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 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...

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