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The impact of home production on economic inequality in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2009
Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...
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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 …
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Income, work, and health satisfaction differ primarily by household income, age, and parental status
Buchinger, Laura; Entringer, Theresa Margareta; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 14 (2024) 32/33/34, pp. 211-219
people have better relationships, are more productive, and have a longer life expectancy. General life satisfaction is being … community as well as policymakers. This Weekly Report investigates the income, work, and health satisfaction of the German … population from 2004 to 2021. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate if there are differences in satisfaction …
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Trust and racial income inequality : evidence from the U.S.
Tesei, Andrea - 2015
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472550
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Uncovering the Impact of Intergenerational Income Mobility on Interpersonal Trust
Shaleva, Anna - 2019
Alluding to theories about relative economic status and behavior, this paper studies if relative income mobility, or the intergenerational change in income positions, affects interpersonal trust. Empirically, the question is brought down to an application with US General Social Survey data. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012905725
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Growing Apart, Losing Trust? The Impact of Inequality on Social Capital
Gould, Eric D. - 2016
There is a widespread perception that trust and social capital have declined in United States as well as other advanced economies, while income inequality has tended to increase. While previous research has noted that measured trust declines as individuals become less similar to one another,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977787
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Dominance and divergence: ethnic groups and preferences for redistribution in Southeast Asia
Capuno, Joseph J. - 2021
Does identification with dominant ethnic groups lead individuals to diverge in their preferences for redistribution? This paper contributes to the comparative analysis of the role of ethnic background in shaping attitudes towards government's role in reducing income inequalities in Indonesia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625227
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Does Inequality Affect the Perception of Needs?
Colson-Sihra, Eve; Bellet, Clement - 2021
This paper investigates how inequality affects what the poor consider necessary to purchase. Using detailed information on the consumption choices of a large sample of poor households in India, we first provide evidence that inequality tends to make luxuries more necessary to the poor (their...
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Income inequality and saving in a class society : the role of ordinal status
Haagsma, Rein - 2018
This paper examines the impact of income growth and income inequality on household saving rates and payoffs in a non-cooperative game where each player’s payoff depends on her present and future consumption and her rank in the present consumption distribution. The setting is a pooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011877943
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Income inequality and saving in a class society : the role of ordinal status
Haagsma, Rein - 2018
This paper examines the impact of income growth and income inequality on household saving rates and payoffs in a non-cooperative game where each player's payoff depends on her present and future consumption and her rank in the present-consumption distribution. The setting is a pooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789399