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. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; income ; disutility of labor …-monotonic form. Our results suggest that the impact of working hours on happiness is rather small and exhibits an inverse U-shape. We …
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U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income inequality measured at the state or national level is associated with diminished subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. We conduct the first multi-scale analysis (i.e., at the...
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-reported happiness. This suggests that people who aim at increasing their happiness should try to find a better-paid job if their … associated with higher job mobility. We conclude that low relative income (compared to the neighbors) reduces workers' happiness …
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suggest that close to 90% of the respondents actually seek to maximize their SWB. The life satisfaction question appears the … best contender as the "maximand" in the contest, before the ladder‐of‐life question and felt happiness. Among the other …
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-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …
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