The Joneses in Japan: Income comparisons and financial satisfaction

Arbeitspapier

This paper uses Japanese data which includes measures of self-declared satisfaction, reference-group income, and the direction and intensity of income comparisons. Relative to Europeans, the Japanese compare more to friends and less to colleagues, and compare their incomes more. The relationship between satisfaction and others' income is negative, and more negative for those who report greater income comparison intensity. A self-reported measure of others' income does better than cell-mean income in explaining satisfaction, and would arguably make a useful addition to many existing surveys.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ISER Discussion Paper ; No. 866

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
• Thema: Income Comparisons ; Reference-Group Income ; Reference Groups ; Satisfaction ; Zufriedenheit ; Haushaltseinkommen ; Vergleich ; Zeitreihenanalyse ; Japan

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Clark, Andrew E. ; Senik, Claudia ; Yamada, Katsunori
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (wo): Osaka
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/92725
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ