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, 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: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 449
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
General Welfare; Well-Being
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- Thema
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Relative Deprivation
Satisfaction
SubjectiveWell-Being
SOEP
- 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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Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
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Berlin
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2004
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- D'Ambrosio, Conchita
- Frick, Joachim R.
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Entstanden
- 2004