Search Results - subject:"reference groups"

Positional concerns among the poor : does reference group matter? ; evidence from survey experiments

Akay, Alpaslan; Andersson, Lisa; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2014

limited and most often builds on the assumption that people's reference groups are the same across all individuals. We conduct … a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia that is modified to include multiplicity of reference groups. We estimate … positional concerns considering various reference groups to test whether the low positional concerns found in the literature is …

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Testing the tunnel effect : comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 24, pp. 1-30

In contrast to previous results combining all ages, we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s and negative effects for those over 45. In the UK, these coefficients are several times the magnitude of own income effects. In West Germany, they cancel out to give...

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Testing the Tunnel Effect: Comparison, Age and Happiness in UK and German Panels

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - 2013

In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s, and negative effects for those over 45. In the BHPS these coefficients are several times the magnitude of own income effects. In GSOEP they cancel to give no effect of...

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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013

income with respect to predetermined reference groups is used to provide evidence on the relationship between income … occupation and friends. For job-related reference groups income comparisons are mostly upwards and perceiving to earn less than …

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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013

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The Joneses in Japan: Income comparisons and financial satisfaction

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia; Yamada, Katsunori - 2013

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...

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Interindividual deprivation, close and remote individuals

Olmedo, Luis José Imedio; Bárcena-Martín, Elena; … - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2013

In assessing relative deprivation, the classical approach considers that individuals compare their income with each and every income of the distribution, and assign equal weight to these comparisons. In this paper we propose a more realistic alternative approach to obtain individual deprivation....

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Testing the Tunnel Effect: Comparison, Age and Happiness in UK and German Panels

FitzRoy, Felix; Nolan, Michael; Steinhardt, Max; Ulph, David - School of Economics and Finance, University of St. Andrews - 2013

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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2013

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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

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