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Testing the Tunnel Effect : Comparison, Age and Happiness in UK and German Panels
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2013
income effects. In GSOEP they cancel to give no effect of effect of comparison income on life satisfaction in the whole … sample, when controlling for fixed effects, and time-in-panel, and with flexible, age-group dummies. The residual age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080131
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : Evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and private sectors
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2008
individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the … unemployment. -- unemployment ; life satisfaction ; job security ; public sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003713639
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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015 - Substantially rev. version
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 negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344536
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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015
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 negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346880
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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015
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 negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347274
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Two pandemic years greatly reduced young people's life satisfaction : evidence from a comparison with pre-COVID-19 panel data
Neugebauer, Martin; Patzina, Alexander; Dietrich, Hans; … - 2023
, we compared the 2-year development of life satisfaction of German high school students during COVID-19 (N = 2,698) with … satisfaction in winter 2020/2021 (Cohen's d = -0.40) that was approximately three times stronger than that in the general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437912
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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
individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …
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
individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632445
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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being : conference paper
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - This version: February 18, 2013
Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342250
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Testing the tunnel effect : comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 24, pp. 1-30
income effects. In West Germany, they cancel out to give no effect of comparison income on life satisfaction in the whole … sample when controlling for fixed effects, time-in-panel, and age-groupings. Pooled OLS estimation gives the usual negative … comparison effect in the whole sample for both West Germany and the UK. The residual age-happiness relationship is hump-shaped in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533126