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Well-being and inequality
Böhnke, Petra; Kohler, Ulrich - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003691379
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Who compares to whom? : the anatomy of income comparisons in Europe
Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2009
This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898065
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Who compares to whom? : the anatomy of income comparisons in Europe
Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 120 (2010), pp. 573-594
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969257
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Happiness in Europe : Cross-Country Differences in the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being
Pedersen, Peder J. - 2009
the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the … ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154979
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Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe
Clark, Andrew - 2009
This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155578
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Zur Angleichung von Einkommen und Lebensqualität im vereinigten Deutschland
Goebel, Jan; Habich, Roland; Krause, Peter - In: Die Wirtschaft in Ostdeutschland 20 Jahre nach dem Fall …, (pp. 122-145). 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003880344
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Akzentuierung oder Kompensation? : zum Zusammenhang von Sozialkapital, sozialer Ungleichheit und subjektiver Lebensqualität
Diewald, Martin; Lüdicke, Jörg - In: Soziale Netzwerke und soziale Ungleichheit : zur Rolle …, (pp. 11-51). 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014558354
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Life satisfaction
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both … self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well … contacts and family have the highest impact on global life satisfaction, followed by job and daily activities and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810881
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The role of dissatisfaction and per capita income in explaining self-employment across 15 European countries
Noorderhaven, Niels G.; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Wennekers, A. R. - 2004
This paper deals with explaining the sizable differences in the rate of self-employment (business ownership) across 15 European countries in the period 1978-2000, within a framework of occupational choice, focusing on the influence of dissatisfaction and of per capita income. Using two different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001994207
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Communism as the Unhappy Coming
Djankov, Simeon - 2018
the expense of others. These differences in life satisfaction and other attitudes and values persisted despite the fact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922772