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supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However … life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational …-Kausalität kann angenommen werden. Zentrale Ergebnisse: Ein anfänglicher Anstieg der Zufriedenheit erhöht das individuelle Einkommen …
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analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … health estimates while satisfaction results fluctuate. Underweight women and especially underweight men tend to less …
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A series of studies have suggested that changes in others' income may be perceived differently in post-transition and …' income divide the German nation. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany is negative (which is in line … with the "relative income" hypothesis) and slightly more marked in neighbourhoods that may be assumed to be places where …
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In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and … effects social treadmill has on life satisfaction for humans with high income. A key result of the fixed-effect-regression is … the following: There is a significant effect relative income has on the contentment with life for affluent people, whereas …
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This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …
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keine kausalen Aussagen zur komplexen Wechselwirkung von Sport und Gesundheit treffen. Es stellt sich also die Frage, ob …
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German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for …-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to … nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German …
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inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …
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reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by measuring the impact of changes in working-hours on life satisfaction …
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The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
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