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) showed that higher income individuals are less generous than poorer individuals only if they reside in a U.S. state with … major finding before readily accepting it as evidence, we analyzed the effect of the interaction between income and …
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This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions …
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Usually, it is expected that income increases life satisfaction. In recent years tough, research emerged that shows how … subjective well-being, including satisfaction, influences objective measures, as for example income. This would then require … explicit identification strategies for estimating effects of income on life satisfaction. I address this issue using German …
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attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to rightwing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in … a representative survey of German households. We find that people with pessimistic beliefs about their income position … differences in the mechanism: Misperception triggers income dissatisfaction for both men and women, but the former are much more …
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We here explore the link between individual concerns about crime and the distribution of income in Germany. We make use … deprivation have statistically-significant effects on reported concerns about crime, while relative satisfaction plays no role. At … the aggregate level, the main driver is equally income polarization, whereas the standard measure of inequality, the Gini …
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income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these … results and notions about the well-being situation of self-employed persons not only by asking about traditional single income … the substitution/compensation between genuine, personal leisure time and income. The available detailed Time Use Surveys …
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Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …
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There is general agreement about the importance of integrating non-monetary income components into cash-based income … first round of EU-SILC (EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) collected in 12 EU countries in 2004 and placing …
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We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index …, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann …
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It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …
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