distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL … curve areas. Comparisons of life satisfaction distributions for six countries reveal a substantial number of unanimous … inequality rankings. …

demonstrate, ineqord can be used for dominance checks as well as for estimation of indices of polarization and inequality. …

We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than … described by leading earlier research such as Goff, Helliwell, and Mayraz (Economic Inquiry, 2018). Using inequality indices … appropriate for ordinal data, our analysis using the World Values Survey reveals that skewness of the SWL distribution, not only …

research examining the issue has concentrated on international specialization and within-country income inequality as main … that income inequality is perceived very differently depending on openness to trade. The relevance of perceptions has wider …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is … the World Values Survey data and a broad set of fairness measures, we find strong support for the negative (positive …

a life satisfaction question included in the Gallup World Poll in almost all countries in the world. We argue that …In this paper we compute inequality measures over the distribution of a subjective well-being variable constructed from … inequality in subjective well-being may be a better proxy for the degree of unfairness in a society than income inequality. We …

satisfaction. Using the large dataset of the Hungarian Microcensus of 2016 and a measure that quantifies perceived inequality based … inequality and life satisfaction is stronger among those who demand greater wage equalization. The results suggest that the … association between perceived wage inequality and satisfaction is stronger for low SES respondents than for high SES respondents …