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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic growth, incomes generally are rising, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what...
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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 209 (2023), pp. 200-204
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Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States
Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 5, pp. 1-30
Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on...
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Relative income and happiness : an Experiment
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Houser, Daniel; Diaz, Lina - 2018
John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...
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Comparative analysis of the level of satisfaction with the financial situation in Romania and EU countries
Necula, Diana Maria - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 224-233). 2023
countries of the European Union. The work analyzed indicators that express the material well-being of a society such as: GDP and … among the last places in terms of GDP per capita or median income, and despite this the population of our country has an … that have a higher median income or GDP. …
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Innovation and Government Payments in the Italian Digital Agenda
Arpaia, Carlo Maria - 2013
We examine the main items on the European and the Italian Digital Agenda and the rules of the Digital Administration Code, in particular on-line payments. We then highlight the part played by the Bank of Italy in overall administrative modernization through its role as provider of the State...
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …
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Worldwide enterpreneurship leadership of Germany, Japan and the United States
Pena-Sanchez, Rolando - In: Journal of international business and economics : JIBE 21 (2021) 3, pp. 35-40
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Comparing living and working conditions : Germany outperforms the United States
Priewe, Jan - 2024
This paper compares living and working conditions in the U.S. and Germany for the year 2022 with a focus on economic … only comprehensive comparison of living conditions in the U.S. and Germany. The result of the comparison shows that Germany … underlines the limited role of GDP per capita for the living conditions of the majority of the population while highlighting the …
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Comparing inequality aversion across countries when labor supply responses differ
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2013
We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when control- ling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...
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