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income seems also of minor importance, even though the estimated coefficients have the expected signs implied by substitution … and income effects. The overall results suggest that unfair wage perceptions, which are related to stress, negatively …
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life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 45,800 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2011 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...
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In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income …, using a number of assumptions, we are able to estimate the elasticity of marginal utility with respect to income. We obtain …
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, which has its origins in the field of justice research and is used in particular in the measurement of income justice. We … constitute important criteria for determining what constitutes a "fair" income. The factor survey in the 2008 SOEP Pretest offers …
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Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …
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analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over … estimates. However, no clear-cut disadvantage in income of underweight men can be found. Stable coefficients result for the …
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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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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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2018 wurden die Teilnehmenden des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels zum dritten Mal danach gefragt, ob und wie viel Geld sie im vergangenen Jahr für soziale, kirchliche, kulturelle, ge-meinnützige und wohltätige Zwecke gespendet haben. Das vorliegende Papier befasst sich mit den Ergebnissen dieser...
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