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Unfairness at Work : Well-Being and Quits
D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2018
We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. In six waves of German Socio-Economic Panel data, the extent to which own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926714
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Effort and Comparison Income : Experimental and Survey Evidence
Clark, Andrew; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021
This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others' incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317559
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Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data
Clark, Andrew - 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 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042992