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Keeping up with the Joneses by finding a better-paid job : the effect of relative income on job mobility

Kronenberg, Kristin; Kronenberg, Tobias - 2011

-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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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...

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A decomposition of multidimensional economic well-being : an application to Spanish regions

Díaz Caro, Carlos; Pérez Mayo, Jesús - 2015 - (Early draft version)

The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of well-being changes due to, on one side, the changes in the weighting scheme and, on the other, changes in the indicators along the time. An alternative methodology is proposed in this paper that allows one to decompose a multidimensional index...

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The value of public service broadcasting in Japan : the life satisfaction approach

Okuyama, Naoko - 2017

Evaluation of amenities and benefits of public service broadcasting is crucially important with the accelerated convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications and the increasing heterogeneities of media use by individuals. With the use of the microdata provided from a survey carried out by...

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Do people choose what makes them happy and how do they decide at all? : a theoretical inquiry

Scheuer, Niklas - 2020

We develop a theoretical model that jointly explains optimal choices and happiness. We work with constant elasticity of … substitution functions for utility and happiness. Employing a choice framework, individuals are confronted with two options. When … there exists a trade-off, we determine parametric conditions for which individual happiness and utility coincide as well as …

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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

The paper analyzes the satisfaction regarding the financial situation in Romania compared to the rest of the member countries of the European Union. The work analyzed indicators that express the material well-being of a society such as: GDP and Median Income, but also satisfaction regarding the...

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