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Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States

Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 5, pp. 1-30

Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on...

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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021

The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic growth, incomes generally are rising, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what...

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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?

Easterlin, Richard A. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 209 (2023), pp. 200-204

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Relative income and happiness : an Experiment

Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Houser, Daniel; Diaz, Lina - 2018

John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...

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Comparative analysis of the level of satisfaction with the financial situation in Romania and EU countries

Necula, Diana Maria - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 224-233). 2023

countries of the European Union. The work analyzed indicators that express the material well-being of a society such as: GDP and … among the last places in terms of GDP per capita or median income, and despite this the population of our country has an … that have a higher median income or GDP. …

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Innovation and Government Payments in the Italian Digital Agenda

Arpaia, Carlo Maria - 2013

We examine the main items on the European and the Italian Digital Agenda and the rules of the Digital Administration Code, in particular on-line payments. We then highlight the part played by the Bank of Italy in overall administrative modernization through its role as provider of the State...

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Comparing inequality aversion across countries when labor supply responses differ

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2013

We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when control- ling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...

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Comparing Inequality Aversion Across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Bargain, Olivier - 2013

We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when controlling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...

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Health and income : a robust comparison of Canada and the US

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Echevin, Damien - 2009

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...

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Reference groups and the poverty line : an axiomatic approach with an empirical illustration

Chakravarty, Satya R.; Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa; … - 2015

A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam...

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