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Well-being inequality and reference groups : an agenda for new research
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934246
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Growth and inequality : a meta-analysis
Dominicis, Laura de; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, … - 2006
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and empirical approaches have produced ambiguous results on sign and size of this relationship. Although there is a considerable part of the literature that considers inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349190
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Heterogeneous agents, human capital formation and international income inequality
Munandar, Haris - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003645092
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Heterogeneous agents, human capital formation and international income inequality
Munandar, Haris - 2007
The paper examines the effect of heterogeneity in individual human capital formation on cross-country income inequality. It considers a two-country model of overlapping generation heterogeneous economies with the following features: (1) individuals are heterogeneous with respect to inborn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374433
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Well-being inequality and reference groups : an agenda for new research
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2010 - Version March 3, 2010
In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being of the individual depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables consists of the characteristics of the individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379637
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Competition and well-being
Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2004
We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that … in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff … gains for the short side of the market. We also find that competition has a strong negative impact on social well-being, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335225
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Competition and well-being
Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002026380
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Income and well-being
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the importance of 'comparison income' for individual well-being or happiness. In other words, the influence of the income of a reference group on individual well-being is examined. The main novelty is that various hypotheses are tested: importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326410
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Income satisfaction inequality and its causes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326418
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Income satisfaction inequality and its causes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001647204