This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This … approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant … indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their level of welfare and well-being. For a meaningful analysis of subjective …

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …