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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - This version: March 18, 2013

Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...

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Relative Income and Happiness : An Experiment

Ifcher, John - 2018

John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...

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Absolute Income, Relative Income, and Happiness

Ball, Richard J.; Chernova, Kateryna - 2005

This paper uses data from the World Values Survey to investigate how an individual's self-reported happiness is related to (i) the level of her income in absolute terms, and (ii) the level of her income relative to other people in her country. The main findings are that (i) both absolute and...

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Einkommensentwicklung im Freistaat Sachsen

Arent, Stefan; Nagl, Wolfgang; Ragnitz, Joachim - 2011

reduction of both the nomnial and the real wage differential in the private sector between eastern and western Germany. The fast … good match in the development of nominal and negotiated wages in the public sector in both parts of Germany. Whereas a …

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Einkommensentwicklung im Freistaat Sachsen : Gutachten im Auftrag der FDP-Fraktion im Sächsischen Landtag

Arent, Stefan; Nagl, Wolfgang; Ragnitz, Joachim - 2011

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Relative Deprivation and Well-Being of the Rural Youth

Sakketa, Takalign; Gerber, Nicolas - 2021

Relative income deprivation is one mechanism through which income or wealth inequality is hypothesized to affect human behaviour, with consequences on well-being. The study checks these effects against multiple self-identified reference groups using a unique rich panel data set from Ethiopia,...

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Is it income adaptation or social comparison? : the effect of relative income on happiness and the Easterlin paradox in India

Lakshmanasamy, T.; Maya, K. - In: The Indian economic journal 68 (2020) 4, pp. 477-495

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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

design effective post-immigration policies. …

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Utilitarian and ideological determinants of attitudes toward immigration : Germany before and after the "refugee crisis"

Welsch, Heinz - 2019

indirect channel through which ideology may shape attitudes toward immigration policies. Focusing on Germany before and after …Previous studies on the determinants of attitudes toward immigration can be classified into those that take a … utilitarian perspective, focusing on individuals’ perceptions of real-world impacts of immigration, and those that look at …

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Well-being inequality and reference groups: An agenda for new research

van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2010

It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the referencing process into account. The reference effect depends on how frequently individuals compare with others and on the degree of social transparency in society. In this paper we employ the...

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