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Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe

Clark, Andrew - 2009

This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...

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Attitudes to Income Inequality : Experimental and Survey Evidence

Clark, Andrew - 2014

We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings into two broad types of individual attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054599

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...

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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