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Does relative income matter? : are the critics right?
Layard, Peter R. G. (contributor); Mayraz, Guy (contributor) - 2009
level of life-satisfaction: income comparisons emerge as much the more important. 3) When in our U.S. analysis we introduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003868078
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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence
Mayraz, Guy (contributor); Wagner, Gert G. (contributor);  … - 2009
In questions inserted into the 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel we ask subjects to report their income relative to different reference groups, such as fellow employees, other people in their profession, same age and same gender groups, friends, and neighbours. In addition subjects...
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The marginal utility of income
Layard, Peter R. G. (contributor); Mayraz, Guy (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003440205
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Right-wing extremism and the well-being of immigrants
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009
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Income, happiness, and the disutility of labor
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2009
. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; income ; disutility of labor …
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Dissatisfied with life, but having a good day : time-use and well-being of the unemployed
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2009
self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are more satisfied with their life than the unemployed and report more … that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …, triggered by the opportunity to use the time in a way that yields higher levels of satisfaction than working. -- Unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877436
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Crime and mental wellbeing
Cornaglia, Francesca; Leigh, Andrew - 2011
Most estimates of the cost of crime focus on victims. Yet it is plausible that an even larger cost of crime occurs via its indirect impact on the mental wellbeing of non-victims. To test how crime affects individuals’ mental outcomes, we exploit detailed panel data on mental wellbeing,...
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Happy talk : mode of administration effects on subjective well-being
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios - 2012
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Money and happiness : evidence from the industry wage structure
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2011
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Genes, economics, and happiness
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Christakis, Nicholas A.; Fowler, … - 2012
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