Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 6,887
Cover Image
Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2010
social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274890
Cover Image
Life satisfaction and income inequality
Verme, Paolo - 2010
such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens we test the consistency of income inequality in … predicting life satisfaction. We find that income inequality has a negative and signifcant effect on life satisfaction. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336043
Cover Image
The great happiness moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287588
Cover Image
On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
the World Values Survey data and a broad set of fairness measures, we find strong support for the negative (positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302716
Cover Image
On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2010
the World Values Survey data and a broad set of fairness measures, we find strong support for the negative (positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422202
Cover Image
On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
the World Values Survey data and a broad set of fairness measures, we find strong support for the negative (positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285804
Cover Image
The association between income inequality and mental health: Social cohesion or social infrastructure?
Layte, Richard; Maître, Bertrand - 2009
A large literature has emerged around the strong association between income inequality and average life expectancy and a range of health outcomes including mental well being. Three possible explanations for the association have been offered: that the association is a statistical artefact; the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277654
Cover Image
Zur Angleichung von Einkommen und Lebensqualität im vereinigten Deutschland
Goebel, Jan; Habich, Roland; Krause, Peter - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 2, pp. 122-145
differences and subjective evaluations of life satisfaction. There has been significant progress toward convergence in the overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377883
Cover Image
The Selection of Pay Referents: Potential Patterns and Impacts on Life Satisfaction
Schneider, Simone - 2010
groupsare most detrimental to life satisfaction? The analysis is based on data from the 2008 and 2009 pretest modules of the …. The consequences of such comparisons for life satisfaction prove to be negative: the more importance an individual … attaches to income comparisons with reference groups, the lower his or her life satisfaction. Income relative to neighbors and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600975
Cover Image
Time and income poverty: An interdependent multidimensional poverty approach with German time use diary data
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2009
Socio-Economic Panel and estimate the substitution by a CES-utility function of general utility/satisfaction. Given this … Substitution mit einer CES-Nutzenfunktion einer generellen Zufriedenheit. Mit dieser Qantifizierung können wir dann singuläre Zeit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290516