The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the …, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what is happening to the incomes of others. An increase in the incomes … of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …

novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find …This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …

novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find …This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …

novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find …This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …

bargaining ; income satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; collective models ; perceived contribution ; financial autonomy … question about financial satisfaction to be indicators of (i) the level of current and potential resources of the household … satisfaction can then be decomposed into two elements; the first, the average of a couple's satisfaction scores, represents their …