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Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Akay, Alpaslan - 2014
As their environment changes, migrants constitute an interesting group to study the effect of relative income on subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Using a novel dataset, we find that the well-being of migrants depends on several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068561
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Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
Akay, Alpaslan - 2015
substantial utility loss due to income comparisons, they gain utility by comparing their remittances with those received by their … respect to remittances. The magnitudes of these two opposite effects are very similar, implying that the utility reduction due … to relative income is compensated by the utility gain due to relative remittances. This finding is robust to various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016326
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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective
D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2011
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756895
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Mums and their Sons, Dads and their Daughters : Panel Data Evidence of Interdependent Marginal Utilities across 14 EU Countries
Molina, Jose Alberto; Navarro, Maria; Walker, Ian - 2021
We study how fathers and mothers income satisfaction correlates with the income satisfaction of their sons and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317129
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Health and Well-Being in the Crisis
Askitas, Nikos - 2011
The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127723
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Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?
Clark, Andrew - 2011
thresholds. Such regime changes are visible to the eye through the lens of subjective satisfaction measures. The case of … Transition countries is particularly impressive in this respect: average life satisfaction scores closely mirrored changes in GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127954
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Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-Being
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2010
In a model with heterogeneous workers and both intensive and extensive margins of employment, we consider two systems of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own-consumption relative to average employed workers' consumption, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136943
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel : Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War
van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for … respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size on both life and financial satisfaction seems to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138252
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The French Unhappiness Puzzle : The Cultural Dimension of Happiness
Senik, Claudia - 2011
This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of equivalent affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle the influence of objective circumstances versus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117611
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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top : Evidence for Germany
Peichl, Andreas - 2011
nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German …-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117616