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Clark, Andrew - 2012

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...

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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There is More of it Around? A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland

Oesch, Daniel - 2011

This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may...

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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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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083124

Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being

Akay, Alpaslan - 2013

This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax...

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Why is the World Getting Older? The Influence of Happiness on Mortality

Guven, Cahit - 2009

World life expectancy has risen by around 20 years in the last 50 years. This period has also witnessed rising happiness levels around the world suggesting that happiness might be one of the causes behind the decline in mortality. We investigate the relationship between happiness and mortality...

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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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Trajectories of Life Satisfaction : Positive Feedback Loops May Explain Why Life Satisfaction Changes in Multi-Year Waves, Rather than Oscillating Around a Set-Point

Headey, Bruce - 2014

Long term panel data enable researchers to construct Life Satisfaction (LS) trajectories for individuals over time. In …, including health, frequency of physical exercise, frequency of social activities/social participation, and satisfaction with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050397

Estimating Benefits from Regional Amenities : Internal Migration and Life Satisfaction

Fasshauer, Angela - 2015

This paper is the first to link economic theory with empirical life-satisfaction analyses referring to internal … information on people's migration decisions and their life satisfaction for Germany, we provide an empirical investigation of the …

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