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 …

Despite rising popularity of subjective well-being (SWB) as a proxy for utility, its relationship with income is still …: one that insists on individual relative income, and one that finds similarity between individual and aggregate levels … effect of relative income on SWB varies across countries as a function of average income, in addition to a relatively small …

We investigate the role of individual labor income as moderator of the parental subjective well-being trajectories … around the first childbirth. By analyzing the German Socioeconomic Panel Survey data, we find that high-income parents enjoy … their first child less than low-income ones. In a low fertility country such as Germany, income seems therefore to matter …

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …