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Lebenszufriedenheit und Einkommensreichtum : Eine empirische Analyse mit dem SOEP (Life Satisfaction and Income Richness: An Empirical Analysis Based on Data of the German Socioeco...

Hajek, André - 2011

In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and … effects social treadmill has on life satisfaction for humans with high income. A key result of the fixed-effect-regression is …

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So Far So Good : Age, Happiness, and Relative Income

Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2012

comparison income on life satisfaction with all age groups, and many controls. However when we split the West German sample by …

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Income Comparisons, Income Adaptation, and Life Satisfaction : How Robust are Estimates from Survey Data?

Pfaff, Tobias - 2013

variations in the underlying income type substantially affect tests of the relationship between life satisfaction, income rank …

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Income Comparison, Income Formation, and Subjective Well-Being : New Evidence on Envy versus Signaling

Welsch, Heinz - 2013

Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307,465 observations for subjective well-being and its covariates from Germany, 1990-2009, to study whether the nature of income comparison has changed in the process of economic development, and...

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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being

Goerke, Laszlo - 2013

Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...

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Well-Being over the Life Span : Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data

Wunder, Christoph - 2009

shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be … characterized by three age stages. In the first stage, life satisfaction declines until approximately the fifth life decade. In the …

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The Marginal Utility of Income

Layard, Richard - 2008

In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income increases. One needs this parameter for cost-benefit analysis, for optimal taxation and for the (Atkinson) measurement of inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large...

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Poverty is a Public Bad : Panel Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data

Welsch, Heinz - 2017

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people's SWB is negatively correlated with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling...

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Are Retirees More Satisfied? – Anticipation and Adaptation Effects of Retirement on Subjective Well-Being : A Panel Analysis for Germany

Merz, Joachim - 2018

Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society … concerning the “demographic change” with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction … discussion and quantifies life satisfaction and pattern of explanation before and after such a prominent life cycle event, the …

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Life Satisfaction of Immigrants : Does Cultural Assimilation Matter?

Angelini, Viola - 2014

We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...

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