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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...

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Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?

Clark, Andrew - 2011

This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Consistent with the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always...

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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...

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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 …

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