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Satisfaction with Life, Happiness, and Inequality – A Pseudo-Panel Study

Jensen, Søren - 2020

The hypothesis tested in this paper is whether the increasing inequality in recent years has had a significant impact on well-being among the population in Denmark. After a survey of the literature we use attitude variables from the European Social Survey in a pseudo-panel setting covering the...

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Values, Inequality and Happiness

D'Alessio, Giovanni - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between inequality and happiness through the lens of heterogeneous values, beliefs and inclinations. Drawing upon opinion data from the European Social Survey for twenty-three countries, we find that individual views on a wide range of themes can be...

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How Does Inequality of Opportunities Affect the Distribution of Economic Wellbeing in Cameroon?

Fotso, Prevost - 2019

The objective of this study is to measure the empirical effects of inequality of opportunities (IOP) on the distribution of economic wellbeing, which is captured by consumption per adult equivalent of households in Cameroon. To this effect, we apply both the parametric and non-parametric...

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Urban Inequality : A Brief Introduction

Zamnius, Alexey - 2020

In 2007 the share of urban population exceeded the share of rural and the trend for urbanization remains. The city is defined as the center of inequality and segregation, and population density is highest. In this article we give a brief overview of the main works on urbanization

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Which Inequality Makes People Dissatisfied with Their Lives? Evidence of the Link between Life Satisfaction and Inequalities

Ravazzini, Laura - 2015

This paper aims at establishing a clear link between different types of inequality and life satisfaction in Europe …. Indices of income inequality and of inequality of opportunity are proposed to identify the relationship with life satisfaction … inequality of opportunity and negative relative socioeconomic status reduce people's life satisfaction in Europe. Moreover …

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Paradoxes of Happiness : Why People Feel More Comfortable With High Inequalities and High Murder Rates?

Popov, Vladimir - 2018

There is evidence that income and wealth inequalities are positively associated with happiness, as measured by the happiness index, and negatively associated with the suicide rate (that is considered an objective indicator of unhappiness). Moreover, there is some evidence that happiness is also...

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Walls of glass : measuring deprivation in social participation

Suppa, Nicolai - In: Journal of economic inequality 19 (2021) 2, pp. 385-411

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Time, income and subjective wellbeing - 20 years of interdependent multidimensional polarization in Germany

Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2021

Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income but a broader spectrum of dimensions is required to draw the picture of multiple facets of individual life. In our study of multidimensional polarization we extend the income...

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Time, income and subjective wellbeing - 20 years of interdependent multidimensional polarization in Germany

Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2021

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Happiness in the Dual Society of Urban China : Hukou Identity, Horizontal Inequality and Heterogeneous Reference

Jiang, Shiqing - 2014

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the subjective well-being of different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, quot;bornquot; urban residents, and quot;acquiredquot; urban residents who once changed...

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