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Life Satisfaction and Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification
Easterlin, Richard A.; Zimmermann, Anke C. - 2008
Economic disruption in East Germany at the time of unification resulted in a noticeable drop in life satisfaction. By the late 1990s East Germany's life satisfaction had recovered to about its 1990 level, and its shortfall relative to West Germany was slightly less than that before unification....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600741
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much … better predictors of subjective well-being in men than in women. Generic (same-gender) comparisons are the most important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600858
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Life satisfaction and relative income: perceptions and evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much … better predictors of subjective well-being in men than in women. Generic (same-gender) comparisons are the most important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271342
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Money, Social Capital and Materialism. Evidence from Happiness Data
Piekalkiewicz, Marcin - 2016
greater material interests, whereas the negative effect of income comparisons on well-being is eliminated for individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448799
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Relative Income and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Immigrants: The Impact of a Collectivistic Culture
Dumludag, Devrim; Gokdemir, Ozge; Vendrik, Maarten C.M. - 2015
This study examines the effects of social comparison with a wide range of reference groups on the life satisfaction of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that deviate from the findings of recent studies and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307494
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My Baby Takes the Morning Train: Gender Identity, Fairness, and Relative Labor Supply Within Households
Lepinteur, Anthony; Flèche, Sarah; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2016
The current study argues that women's decision to leave the labor force at the point where their income exceeds their husbands' income may have less to do with gender identity norm (Bertrand et al., 2015) and more to do with what women think is a fair distribution of relative working hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653110
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The Effect of Relative Concern on Life Satisfaction: Relative Deprivation and Loss Aversion
Leites, Martin; Ramos, Xavier - 2018
Income comparisons are important for individual well-being. We examine the shape of the relationship between relative … across individuals who care differently about income comparisons, people with different personality traits, or social beliefs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873408
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Intra-couple income distribution and subjective well-being: The moderating effect of gender norms
Hajdu, Gábor; Hajdu, Tamás - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between intra-couple income distribution and subjective well-being, using nationally representative data from Hungary. We show that the association between the woman's relative income (the woman's share of the couple's total earnings) and life satisfaction is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944908
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Happiness and loss aversion: when social participation dominates comparison
Vendrik, Maarten C. M.; Woltjer, Geert - 2006
A central finding in happiness research is that a person's income relative to the average income in her social reference group is more important for her life satisfaction than the absolute level of her income. This dependence of life satisfaction on relative income can be related to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277002
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Income comparisons, income adaptation, and life satisfaction: How robust are estimates from survey data?
Pfaff, Tobias - 2013
Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313034