The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these … being relative deprivation, and the second is to measure this relative deprivation, in both monetary and satisfaction terms … satisfaction measures depend on relative deprivation, as well as on other determinants. As for the second objective, we first …

the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 we show individuals' reports of subjective wellbeing in Europe did decline in the … the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from … slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which has been rising …

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … conditional on having the same income, there is no rural-urban happiness gap. Our results suggest that while further decline in …. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income …

We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality … traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and … usually observed concavity of the relationship: individuals with a higher neuroticism score enjoy extra income more than those …

The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the … last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income shares affect human well-being. This study … combines the latest data to examine the relationship between top income share and different dimensions of subjective well …

ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible … to study also the impact on satisfaction from income changes as well as the impact from acceleration in income and … the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the …

We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross …-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …

that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We …-headed households and rural inhabitants. It also is much larger than when measured in terms of income. Differing trends between the … middle class defined based on income and based on capabilities is attributed to improved capabilities have not been rewarded …