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The evolution of income inequality in Germany and Switzerland since the turn of the millennium
Grabka, Markus M.; Kuhn, Ursina - 2012
This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using … harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has … increased substantially during this period, in Switzerland inequality in market incomes has increased only marginally and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578800
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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? : the Janus face of Switzerland
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009 - Rev. version
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence about the relative merits of competing hypotheses. It tips the … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894063
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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between the United States and Europe? : the Janus face of Switzerland
Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence about the relative merits of competing hypotheses. It tips the … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909517
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Why Does the Amount of Income Redistribution Differ between The United States and Europe? The Janus Face of Switzerland
Akkoyunlu, Sule - 2014
In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence about the relative merits of competing hypotheses. It tips the … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071181
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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015 - Substantially rev. version
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344536
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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346880
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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347274
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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being : conference paper
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - This version: February 18, 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342250
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Relative income and happiness : an Experiment
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Houser, Daniel; Diaz, Lina - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902869
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the Eurozone : a cross-country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2015
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288530