pattern of reference groups in urban areas and to identify channels of positive and negative spillovers on life satisfaction …

pattern of reference groups in urban areas and to identify channels of positive and negative spillovers on life satisfaction …

community as well as policymakers. This Weekly Report investigates the income, work, and health satisfaction of the German … satisfaction as well as income, work, and health satisfaction have either increased or remained constant since 2004. However …, differences between groups, some quite significant, still remain, especially in terms of health satisfaction. Comparatively, low …

income, relative income (i.e. how individual income compares to those of peers), individual health, and relative health … contribute to these inequalities. The analysis focuses on the population aged 50 and over, using data from the ‘Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe’ and the ‘Health and Retirement Study’ for the US. All countries display some socioeconomic …

, and health measures) to examine the consistency of the relationship. We find that the relationship is both scale …