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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence

Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009

Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...

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The impact of home production on economic inequality in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2009

Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...

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Accounting for imputed and capital income flows in income inequality analyses

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2009

alternative private investments, our results indicate that they do not coincide in their impacts on income inequality and poverty … inequality and relative poverty, very much driven by the increasing share of outright ownership among the elderly. On the other … consideration of all components of private investment income for the purpose of welfare analysis, be they of a monetary or non …

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Wealth distribution within couples

Grabka, Markus M.; Marcus, Jan; Sierminska, Eva - 2013

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...

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Gini who? : the relationship between inequality perceptions and life satisfaction

Marchesi, Daniele; Nikolova, Milena; Angelini, Viola - 2024

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Left behind but doing good? : civic engagement in two post-socialist countries

Nikolova, Milena; Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015

in Bulgaria and Romania. Given civil society's role for development in post-socialist Europe and the socio-economic and …

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Happiness and development

Nikolova, Milena - 2016

more comprehensive view of human progress. SWB measures have several advantages but also challenges which development … provides an overview of the SWB approach and offers insights into whether and how SWB measures can inform development theory …

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Bentham or Aristotle in the development process? : an empirical investigation of capabilities and subjective well-being

Graham, Carol; Nikolova, Milena - 2014

studied well-being dimension: eudaimonia, or life purpose, which is an underlying objective of the development process. …

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In transit : the well-being of migrants from transition and post-transition countries

Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2014

The extant literature has focused on migration's consequences for the receiving countries. In this paper, we ask a different but important question: how much do migrants gain from moving to another country? Using Gallup World Poll data and a methodology combining statistical matching with...

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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016

We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern histories, there is no evidence on how it affected the...

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