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household's monetary financial position on overall life satisfaction and financial well-being, with the latter being measured by … indicate that the household's level of net wealth, assets and debt are important determinants of overall life satisfaction and … the comparison group is an important determinant of an individual's level of overall life satisfaction and financial well …
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household's monetary financial position on overall life satisfaction and financial well-being, with the latter being measured by … indicate that the household's level of net wealth, assets and debt are important determinants of overall life satisfaction and … the comparison group is an important determinant of an individual's level of overall life satisfaction and financial well …
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We use unique data in which both partners report about household finances to demonstrate that there is often … disagreement about whether the household has experienced financial difficulty in the past year. Four alternative explanations for … underlying material hardship rather than to gender differences, information asymmetries, or individual (as opposed to household …
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Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in real wages where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured. Previous...
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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 …
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with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany … countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain … significant, though not large, changes in satisfaction levels. …
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circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2001 and 2002 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia …The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but …
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inequality we find that income explains the largest part of structural Income Satisfaction Inequality together with household …In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective …
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: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction …
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In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
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