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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life...
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We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. In six waves of German Socio-Economic Panel data, the extent to which own...
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fairness as an important organizational justice variable, (2) the impact of firms' wage structures on workers' job satisfaction … and turnover intentions, and (3) the contribution of the fairness considerations on the overall effects of the wage …
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persistence. -- equality of opportunity ; fairness ; redistribution ; wage inequality …
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We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the … attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the normative and the comparative view. The first can be thought of as …-interest, as individual's inequality attitudes depend not only on how much income they receive but also on how much they receive …
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of the main SOEP survey. -- Income ; justice theory ; fairness ; factorial survey method ; SOEP …
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This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are...
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Using new data from a three-wave panel survey administered in Germany between May 2020 and May 2021, this paper studies the impact of a negative shock affecting every strata of the population, such as the development of COVID-19, on preferences for redistribution. Exploiting the plausibly...
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Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction discussion and quantifies life satisfaction and pattern of...
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Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a … relationship between risk attitudes and inequality aversion survives the inclusion of individual characteristics (i.e. income …, education, and gender) that may be correlated with both risk attitudes and inequality aversion. -- Happiness ; inequality …
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