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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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1351

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
General Welfare; Well-Being
Thema
relative deprivation
satisfaction
subjective well-being
SOEP
Lebensqualität
Einkommensverteilung
Schätzung
Deutschland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
D'Ambrosio, Conchita
Frick, Joachim R.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2004

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • D'Ambrosio, Conchita
  • Frick, Joachim R.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2004

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