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The Drivers of Happiness Inequality : Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion
Becchetti, Leonardo - 2013
This paper identifies and quantifies the contribution of a set of covariates in affecting levels and over time changes of happiness inequality. Using a decomposition methodology based on RIF regression, we analyse the increase in happiness inequality observed in Germany between 1992 and 2007,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087429
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Satisfaction with Life, Happiness, and Inequality – A Pseudo-Panel Study
Jensen, Søren - 2020
The hypothesis tested in this paper is whether the increasing inequality in recent years has had a significant impact on well-being among the population in Denmark. After a survey of the literature we use attitude variables from the European Social Survey in a pseudo-panel setting covering the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840956
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Relative Income and Happiness : An Experiment
Ifcher, John - 2018
John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911198
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Parental Child Care Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being : A Multidimensional Polarization Approach for Germany
Merz, Joachim - 2019
Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is time which enables and restricts individual activities and is a further brick to a more comprehensive picture of individual well-being. In our study we focus on a prominent part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870361
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Direct Evidence for Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being Across Reference Groups
Goerke, Laszlo - 2015
This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014007
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Income Satisfaction and Deprivation in Spain
Labeaga Azcona, J. Maria - 2007
The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these … being relative deprivation, and the second is to measure this relative deprivation, in both monetary and satisfaction terms … satisfaction measures depend on relative deprivation, as well as on other determinants. As for the second objective, we first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777095
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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
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Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples : Are There Spillovers?
Wunder, Christoph - 2012
satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099785