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Relative income and life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants : the impact of a collectivistic culture

Dumludag, Devrim; Gokdemir, Ozge; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2015

This study examines the effects of social comparison with a wide range of reference groups on the life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that deviate from the findings of recent studies and that...

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Has modernisation gone too far? : modernity and happiness in 141 contemporary nations

Veenhoven, Ruut; Berg, Maarten - In: International journal of happiness and development 1 (2013) 2, pp. 172-195

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Happy hosts? : international tourist arrivals and residents' subjective well-being in Europe

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2016

of international tourist arrivals on the subjective well-being – happiness and life satisfaction – of residents in … satisfaction) than its affective component (happiness). …

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The Easterlin illusion : economic growth does go with greater happiness

Veenhoven, Ruut; Vergunst, Floris - In: International journal of happiness and development 1 (2014) 4, pp. 311-343

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Geography of happiness : configurations of affective and cognitive appraisal of life across nations

Brulé, Gaël; Veenhoven, Ruut - In: International journal of happiness and development 2 (2015) 2, pp. 101-117

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How threatening are transformations of happiness scales to subjective wellbeing research?

Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2020

Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic … increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical … happiness. We derive a simple test of whether reversals are possible by relabelling the scores of reported happiness and deduce …

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Different versions of the Easterlin Paradox : new evidence for European countries

Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2018

Richer people are happier than poorer people, but when a country becomes richer over time, its people do not become happier. This seemingly contradictory pair of findings of Richard Easterlin has be-come famous as the Easterlin Paradox. However, it was met with counterevidence. To shed more...

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Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being : evidence from rural Bangladesh

Bhuiyan, Muhammad Faress; Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2018

Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship. However, its impacts on people's subjective well-being remain underexplored. We present a unified theoretical framework for analyzing the effect of microcredit-enabled...

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Emigration, remittances and the subjective well-being of those staying behind

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2018

Despite growing academic and policy interest in the subjective well-being consequences of emigration for those left behind, existing studies have focused on single origin countries or specific world regions. Our study is the first to offer a global perspective on the well-being consequences of...

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Life-satisfaction is more a matter of feeling well than having what you want : tests of Veenhoven's theory

Kainulainen, Sakari; Saari, Juho; Veenhoven, Ruut - In: International journal of happiness and development 4 (2018) 3, pp. 209-235

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