the World Values Survey data and a broad set of fairness measures, we find strong support for the negative (positive …

effect of the Gini on both happiness and life satisfaction. Two new measures used here - the ratio of persons in the lowest … number in the highest, in a given country - as developed from the World Values Survey data, are shown here to have a negative … and significant effect on both happiness and life satisfaction. This effect holds overall across countries, and for …

This paper aims at establishing a clear link between different types of inequality and life satisfaction in Europe …. Indices of income inequality and of inequality of opportunity are proposed to identify the relationship with life satisfaction … inequality of opportunity and negative relative socioeconomic status reduce people's life satisfaction in Europe. Moreover …

social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find … satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; inequality ; income distribution ; redistribution ; political ideology ; justice ; fairness … ; World Values Survey …