novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …

novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …

In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the … income effects. In GSOEP they cancel to give no effect of effect of comparison income on life satisfaction in the whole … sample, when controlling for fixed effects, and time-in-panel, and with flexible, age-group dummies. The residual age-happiness …

relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct information on income comparison intensity and perceived relative … comparisons and SWB. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for co-workers, people in the same …

underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the … relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on the one hand and employment status and retirement, on the other, using … Gallup World Poll data for several European countries and the United States. We find that voluntary part-time workers are …

regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that … individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring …

individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is possible to assess these latter gains from matching. We introduce a two …

regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that … individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring …

-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for 80 …This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of equivalent … affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to …

relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct information on income comparison intensity and perceived relative … comparisons and SWB. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for co-workers, people in the same …