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Trade, inequality, and subjective well-being : getting at the roots of the backlash against globalization
Dluhosch, Barbara - 2018
Many countries in the Western hemisphere are currently experiencing a backlash against globalization. Most of the research examining the issue has concentrated on international specialization and within-country income inequality as main drivers of the backlash. Doing so, the discussion has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011870318
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The consequences of social policy for subjective well-being : a new paradox?
Akaeda, Naoki - 2022
welfare transfers on life satisfaction and of the cross-level interactions of the welfare transfer variables and household … income on life satisfaction. The results of this study indicate that (1) transfer share is positively associated with life … satisfaction and (2) lowincome targeting shortens the well-being inequality stemming from income but at the cost of life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455204
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The social evaluation of income distribution : an assessment based on happiness surveys
Ebert, Udo (contributor); Welsch, Heinz (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002424390
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Families, time and well-being in Canada
Burton, Peter S.; Phipps, Shelley A. - 2010
paid work hours are negatively correlated with life satisfaction, our results suggest that inequality of well-being may … families, after the first year. -- family ; inequality ; well-being ; life satisfaction ; happiness ; time crunch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669308
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Relative income change and pro-poor growth
Kośny, Marek; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2015
Most methods for the analysis of distributional change rely on the changes in the income of a particular group of people, taking either the situation of this group in the previous period, or the average change in the population, as reference point. By contrast, we propose a measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345748
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Non-working time, income inequality, and quality of life comparisons : the case of the US vs. the Netherlands
Verbakel, Ellen (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003510947
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Income inequality and happiness : is there a relationship?
Alois, Paul - 2014
This paper uses fixed effects regressions to examine the relationship between happiness and income inequality in 30 countries. It has three major findings. First, happiness and income inequality are correlated in the expected direction; high income inequality correlates with a smaller share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374486
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Per capita income versus household-need adjusted income : a cross-country comparison
Koulovatianos, Christos; Minkovski, Polina; Schröder, … - 2010
We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household-size economies due to within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008668612
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Earnings disparities and income inequality in CEE countries : an analysis of development and relationships
Večerník, Jiří - 2010
The potential in survey data for the study of simultaneous changes in earnings disparities, inequality of household income, and the connections between them has thus far been underexploited. This paper presents various data on four Central and East European (CEE) countries and, for the sake of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669292
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Perceived social position and income inequality : do they move together? : evidence from Europe and the United States
Ricci, Chiara Assunta - 2016
The match between perception and reality can depend on many different elements across societies over time, but subjective and objective dimensions are both relevant particularly in social class analysis. The aim of this paper is to investigate perceived social position and income inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484327