Answers to the Eurobarometer question on Life Satisfaction are used to explore the effects of macroeconomic performance and institutional quality on average levels of self‐assessed well-being in the countries of the enlarged European Union between 2004 and 2011. It is found that variations in...

Usually, it is expected that income increases life satisfaction. In recent years tough, research emerged that shows how subjective well-being, including satisfaction, influences objective measures, as for example income. This would then require explicit identification strategies for estimating...

In der Ungleichheitsdebatte werden immer häufiger Parallelen zwischen Deutschland und den USA gezogen. Eine augenscheinliche Ähnlichkeit der Verteilung der Markteinkommen ergibt sich allerdings eher zufällig durch institutionelle Unterschiede in den staatlichen Sicherungssystemen. Die...