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This paper examines the relationship between inequality and happiness through the lens of heterogeneous values, beliefs … to a shared set of rules, regardless of background and circumstances. These traits matter when it comes to how inequality … compatriot tend to dislike inequality. With reference to moderation, inequality aversion can be read in terms of a desire for …
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This paper examines the relationship between inequality and happiness through the lens of heterogeneous values, beliefs … rules, regardless of background and circumstances. These traits matter when it comes to how inequality affects subjective … levels of inequality. In the case of moderation, inequality aversion can be read in terms of a desire for stability: people …
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concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up … consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined …
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We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are … generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing inequality motivates more productive agents to exert higher efforts and help … disadvantageous inequality. Moreover, the more inequity averse the agents, the more inequality should be imposed even by an …
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We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are … generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing inequality motivates more productive agents to exert higher efforts and help … disadvantageous inequality. Moreover, the more inequity averse the agents, the more inequality should be imposed even by an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839287
concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up … consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325687
concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up … consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277027
happiness inequality in happiness studies. We plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up a new …It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the referencing …
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Amidst considerable debate on the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic inequality, scholarship only …
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In this paper we compute inequality measures over the distribution of a subjective well-being variable constructed from … inequality in subjective well-being may be a better proxy for the degree of unfairness in a society than income inequality. We … find evidence that inequality in subjective well-being has an inverse-U relationship with per capita GDP, but it is …
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