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Life Satisfaction and Income Inequality
Verme, Paolo - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2010
Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found evidence on a positive, negative or non significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868023
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Life satisfaction and income inequality
Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective wellbeing? Welfare theories can predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found evidence on a positive, negative or non significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008782825
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Life satisfaction and income inequality
Verme, Paolo - 2010
Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found evidence on a positive, negative or non significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336043
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Life satisfaction and income inequality
Verme, Paolo - 2010
Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found evidence on a positive, negative or non significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658265
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Happiness, Freedom and Control
Verme, Paolo - 2009
Does freedom of choice have an intrinsic value for people and how do people value freedom of choice? Drawing on economics and social psychology the paper provides a theory and empirical evidence of how individuals may value freedom of choice and derive utility from it. It is argued that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201489
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Relative Deprivation with Imperfect Information
Verme, Paolo; Izem, Rima - 2008
The paper proposes an alternative index of relative deprivation which allows for selection of the reference group and imperfect information, two central elements of modern theories of social justice. An application to real data and a simulation on artificial data illustrate the use and some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219229
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Life Satisfaction and Income Inequality
Verme, Paolo - 2011
Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found evidence on a positive, negative or non significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183761
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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty and inequality
Hlásny, Vladimír; Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - 2020
the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202429
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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty and inequality
Hlásny, Vladimír; Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - 2020
the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228751
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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty and inequality
Hlásny, Vladimír; Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287329