This article investigates the influence of performance, popularity and power on "superearnings" using a unique panel … dataset of Italian football players built on various sources of data. Using OLS, Panel and Unconditional Quantile regression … techniques, we find that detailed measures of these factors are all significantly associated with higher wages. Popularity …

We estimate the effect of changes in the body mass index on wages and satisfaction in a panel of German employees …. Dynamic models indicate that satisfaction with life in general and with health are responsive to weight changes, but wages and … satisfaction with work are not. These results mainly corroborate earlier findings from static panel or cross-sectional models. …

Major events in the life of an older individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the … spouse, disability, and a move to a nursing home, may affect the mental health status of the individual. For example, the … individual may enter a prolonged depression. We investigate this using unique longitudinal panel data that track labor market …

mobility caused by retraining courses has the same impact on workers as if they lacked retraining. The wages of workers trained …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … panel LS regressions with individual fixed effects, none of the income variables was significant for the highly educated. … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … for other reference groups, such as neighbours. Work-related income comparisons are mostly upwards and there is a strong …

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … for other reference groups, such as neighbours. Work-related income comparisons are mostly upwards and there is a strong …