life satisfaction, reference income exerts a negative effect on individual well-being, a result consistent with the …Using data from the European Social Survey (ESS), we examine the link between income and subjective well-being. We find … that, for the whole sample of nineteen European countries, although income is positively correlated with both happiness and …

Lang (2019). The classical OLS and ordered probit analysis of self-reported life satisfaction of employees from 32 European … show that the observed income effect on subjective well-being is much weaker for the happiness index than for life … satisfaction, especially when controlling for satisfaction of basic needs. Quantile regression analysis brings additional insights …

European countries. We do so by estimating country-panel equations for mean life satisfaction that include trend and cyclical … between per capita GDP and life satisfaction over time which is positive for poorer countries, but flat (or negative) for …

European countries. Using the special module of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions micro-data on … importance of income vulnerability for the middle class is on a par with (or even greater than) economic factors such as severe … the lower income bound of the middle class (75% of the national median income) and not the poverty line (60% of the median …

reduce life satisfaction across Europe. Building upon these results, we quantify the monetary value of improvements in public …Using information on life satisfaction and crime from the European Social Survey, we apply the life satisfaction … approach (LSA) to determine the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB), income, victimization experience, fear of …