The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point in time those with higher income are happier because they are …

It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …

outcomes as well as in other middle-income countries in southern Africa. …

, wages, labor force participation, and well-being as well as its impacts on traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions … consequently earn higher wages, except for mothers who are willing to accept lower pay for the option to work from home. Finally …

wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over …