Arbeitspapier
Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation : An Empirical Link
This paper explores the relationship between two well-established concepts of measuring individual well-being: the concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i.e. the gaps between the individual's income and the incomes of all individuals richer/poorer than him. Operationalizing both concepts using micro panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we provide empirical evidence for subjective well-being depending more on relative satisfaction than on absolute levels of income. This finding holds even after controlling for other influential factors in a multivariate setting.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1351
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
General Welfare; Well-Being
- Thema
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relative deprivation
satisfaction
subjective well-being
SOEP
Lebensqualität
Einkommensverteilung
Schätzung
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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D'Ambrosio, Conchita
Frick, Joachim R.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2004
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- D'Ambrosio, Conchita
- Frick, Joachim R.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2004