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fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … fuel poverty and our well-being outcomes. Employing combined fuel deprivation indicators, which takes into account the … energy policy instruments for uncovering the underlining mechanism via which fuel poverty may get "under the skin" …
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The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these being relative deprivation, and the second is to measure this relative deprivation, in both monetary and satisfaction terms. To that end, we use data from the eight waves of the...
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from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …
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contributes not only to individual but also to societal well-being. Within a novel approach we ask for multidimensional … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution … between parental child care time and income proved to be significant, but there are multidimensional regions with no …
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After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...
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This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using … distribution of income has become more concentrated at the top, the concentration at the top of the multidimensional well … multidimensional wellbeing at the top which has important policy implications …
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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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John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...
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This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
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In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being of the individual depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables consists of the characteristics of the individuals...
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