domain satisfactions and Subjective Well-Being by objectively measurable variables such as income. We estimate a model for …

The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the … last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income shares affect human well-being. This study … combines the latest data to examine the relationship between top income share and different dimensions of subjective well …

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index …, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann …

addresses international differences in per-capita incomes and variations in the contribution of income to happiness. The pivotal … this perspective is that societies can have income levels that are either too high or too low relative to the welfare …

potential happiness are selected using a matching of individual preferences to issues. We detail the construction of an …-Kemeny consensual median rule which respects non-comparability of wellbeing issues. We thus obtain an happiness potential ranking (HPR … happiness potential of states which is complemented with an equivalence to sovereign states …

movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health … income mobility downward movements affect SWB to a greater extent than upward movements, consistent with notions of loss …

We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we … take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. In six waves of … German Socio-Economic Panel data, the extent to which own labour income is perceived to be unfair is significantly negatively …

community as well as policymakers. This Weekly Report investigates the income, work, and health satisfaction of the German … between genders, regions (east/west), age groups, parental status, and income groups. The analysis shows that general life … satisfaction as well as income, work, and health satisfaction have either increased or remained constant since 2004. However …