income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study …: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction … with income is more affected by ex ante than by ex post volatility of income. The ordinal version of the Van Praag approach …

ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the survey to the next. We find a strong impact from the level of income in all countries, an impact from change and …

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same … whether we compare individuals or countries, suggesting that absolute income plays an important role in influencing well …

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups …. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income … registration identity) and education status, household assets, the influence of past and future income and province dummies, we …

illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner … regulation by the European Commission, (EC) which is currently being used to harmonize income measurement for the European … Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) in Europe. While both of these components represent some kind of return on …

income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …

The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these … reduce individual deprivation. Our results suggest that the more unequal the income distribution is in a group, the less … income satisfied is the individual. Moreover, being unemployed is one of the main determinants of deprivation, although …