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Life satisfaction and economic conditions in East and West Germany pre- and post-unification

Easterlin, Richard A.; Zimmermann, Anke C. - 2008

Economic disruption in East Germany at the time of unification resulted in a noticeable drop in life satisfaction. By the late 1990s East Germany's life satisfaction had recovered to about its 1990 level, and its shortfall relative to West Germany was slightly less than that before unification....

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The selection of pay referents : potential patterns and impacts on life satisfaction

Schneider, Simone - 2010

Despite the relatively extensive research on pay levels and the consequences of income disparities, little is known about which reference groups people choose for comparative evaluation of personal income and why different selection patterns emerge. The aim of this paper is to dig deeper for...

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The great happiness moderation

Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2012

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that the time trend in average happiness is flat during episodes of long …-run income growth. This mean-preserving declining spread in happiness comes about via falls in both the share of individuals who …

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Life satisfaction, household income and personality theory

Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - 2012

We show that personality traits mediate the effect of income on Life Satisfaction. The effect is strong in the case of Neuroticism, which measures the sensitivity to threat and punishment, in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism increases the...

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Quality of life and inequality

Krause, Peter - 2015

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Income comparisons, income adaptation, and life satisfaction : how robust are estimates from survey data?

Pfaff, Tobias - 2013 - This version: May, 2013

Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests of the effects often rely on self-constructed measures from survey data. This paper shows that results can be highly sensitive to simple parameter changes. Using large-scale...

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Income comparisons, income formation, and subjective well-being : new evidence on envy versus signaling

Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2013

Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307,465 observations for subjective well-being and its covariates from Germany, 1990-2009, to study whether the nature of income comparison has changed in the process of economic development, and...

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Adaptation to poverty in long-run panel data

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2014 - This version: January 2014

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 45,800 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2011 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...

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Economic growth evens-out happiness : evidence from six surveys

Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2014

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … contributed to this greater happiness homogeneity. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, offering …

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Poverty profiles and well-being : panel evidence from Germany

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2015 - This version: February 2015

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity...

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