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Does relative income matter? : are the critics right?
Layard, Peter R. G.; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J. - 2009
Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635703
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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012
happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and … indirect effects that carry the influence from happiness to income. Significant mediating pathways include a higher probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683363
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Life satisfaction
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van Soest, Arthur - 2009
self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276687
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Life satisfaction
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well … substantially more with income in the U.S. than in The Netherlands. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; vignettes ; reporting bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810881
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Multidimensional affluence : theory and applications to Germany and the US
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379623
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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents : evidence from U.S. counties
Kuroki, Masanori - 2017
This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114070
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sectorspecific institutional differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003667024
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and private sectors
Lüchinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008 - Version of: March 11, 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular, job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632445
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Natural hazard risk and life satisfaction : empirical evidence for U.S. hurricanes
Berlemann, Michael; Eurich, Marina - 2020
The ongoing process of climate change goes along with an increase in the frequency and severity of various sorts of natural disasters. While the existing literature has almost exclusively focused on studying the direct effects resulting from different types of disasters, the effect of changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012436249
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Unhappiness and pain in modern America : a review essay, and further evidence, on Carol Graham's happiness for all?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2017
In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts … citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770416