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The paper argues that there is a valuable overlap between quot;objective goodquot; and people's preferences over basic needs. Firstly, using survey data with 30,000 observations from twenty European countries I analyse the determinants of individual's quot;experienced utilityquot;. The proxy for...
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Az elégedettséget (szubjektív jóllétet) meghatározó tényezők között fontos szerepet játszik a jövedelmi mobilitás. Az egyes emberek jövedelmi pozícióik változását általában nem jövedelmi szintjük, hanem relatív helyzetük változása alapján ítélik meg....
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The authors update previous findings and add new insights on the East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1992-2013). The results indicate that (1) part of the raw East-West gap is due to differences in household income and...
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Cikkünk a magyar háztartások jövedelmeinek, kiadásainak, valamint tartós fogyasztási cikkekkel való ellátottságának egyenlőtlenségeit és mobilitását vizsgálja 1993 és 1998 között. A korábbi kutatások arra az eredményre jutottak, hogy a kilencvenes évek elején...
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This paper aims to test empirically if certain frequently used measures of well-being, which are regarded as valuable properties of human life, are actually desired by people. In other words, it investigates whether the “expert judgments” in social science overlap with social consensus on...
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This paper provides unheard direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect on subjective well-being. It also evaluates the relative importance of different types of benchmarks. Dynamic comparisons outweigh static ones. Internal benchmarks are more important than external reference...
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This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...
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Despite strong growth performance in transition economies in the last decade, residents of transition countries report … explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that the disparity in life satisfaction between residents of transition and … in macroeconomic volatility, and a mismatch of human capital of residents educated before transition (which …
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Despite strong growth performance in transition economies in the last decade, residents of transition countries report … explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that the disparity in life satisfaction between residents of transition and … in macroeconomic volatility, and a mismatch of human capital of residents educated before transition (which …
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satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries – a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend …
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