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Happiness in Europe : Cross-Country Differences in the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being
Pedersen, Peder J. - 2009
ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the survey to the next. We find a strong impact from the level of income in all countries, an impact from change and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154979
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502264
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Different versions of the Easterlin Paradox : new evidence for European countries
Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2018
Richer people are happier than poorer people, but when a country becomes richer over time, its people do not become happier. This seemingly contradictory pair of findings of Richard Easterlin has be-come famous as the Easterlin Paradox. However, it was met with counterevidence. To shed more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951423
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Happiness in Europe : cross-country differences in the determinants of subjective well-being
Pedersen, Peder J.; Dall Schmidt, Torben - 2009
ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the survey to the next. We find a strong impact from the level of income in all countries, an impact from change and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909280
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A satisfaction-driven poverty indicator : a bustle around the poverty line
Juhász, Andos - 2012 - This version: 30. July 2012
Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income … explain income dissatisfaction best among all dichotomizations of income. To this end, several model settings are considered … lines is also investigated. -- Household income ; poverty line ; income satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578805
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Does income increase the well-being of employees? : evidence from Europe
Spolcova, Dominika; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - 2019
show that the observed income effect on subjective well-being is much weaker for the happiness index than for life … (3) the relationship between income and the happiness index is weak and stable over the whole distribution when basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058590
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Wealth and Income in the Euro Area : Heterogeneity in Households’ Behaviours?
Arrondel, Luc - 2014
This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the … Household Finance and Consumption Survey. We study the role played by the household's location in the income distributions in … the position in the income distribution and by intergenerational transfers on the probability to be in a given wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050546
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Wealth and Income in the Euro Area : Heterogeneity in Households' Behaviours?
Arrondel, Luc - 2014
This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the … Household Finance and Consumption Survey. We study the role played by the household's location in the income distributions in … the position in the income distribution and by intergenerational transfers on the probability to be in a given wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053420
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Multidimensional Affluence in Income and Wealth in the Eurozone : A Cross-Country Comparison Using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine - 2015
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016356
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Multidimensional Affluence in Income and Wealth in the Eurozone - A Cross Country Comparison Using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine - 2015
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028508