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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income : Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy - 2009
income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155599
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income - Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203865
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The relationship between subjective wellbeing and subjective wellbeing inequality: taking ordinality and skewness seriously
Grimes, Arthur L.; Jenkins, Stephen; Tranquilli, Florencia - 2020
We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than described by leading earlier research such as Goff, Helliwell, and Mayraz (Economic Inquiry, 2018). Using inequality indices appropriate for ordinal data, our analysis using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290721
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502264
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The impact of differentiated access to income and wealth on health and wellbeing outcomes : a longitudinal Australian study
Kendall, Garth; Ha Trong Nguyen; Ong, Rachel - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773526
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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2004
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level … an excess burden on middle-income earners. The paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324200
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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : A revised version
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2003
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level … an excess burden on middle-income earners. The paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261664
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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence From German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However … excess burden on middle-income earners. The paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) from 1985 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262817
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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence From German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However … excess burden on middle-income earners. The paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) from 1985 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260794
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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top : Evidence for Germany
Peichl, Andreas - 2011
German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for … distribution of income has become more concentrated at the top, the concentration at the top of the multidimensional well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117616