Garza, Adrian de la; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Sannabe, Atsushi - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 2010
This article makes three main contributions to the economics of happiness literature. First, using a novel data set of about 90,000 Japanese workers surveyed in annual cross-sections between 1990 and 2004, it demonstrates that individuals experience strong disutility when they perceive that...