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Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - CESifo - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671705
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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match
Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683292
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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the … social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764827
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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 91 (2013) C, pp. 75-92
We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and subjective well-being, and that there are systematic differences in this regard between countries that are characterized by a high or, respectively, low level of actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048143
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Cross-country determinants of life satisfaction: exploring different determinants across groups in society
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper explores a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a database of 90,000 observations in 70 countries. We distinguish four groups of aggregate variables as potential determinants of satisfaction: political, economic, institutional, and human development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071346
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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match.
Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and subjective well-being, and that there are systematic differences in this regard between countries that are characterized by a high or, respectively, low level of actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112607
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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2009
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010980797
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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - Walter Eucken Institut - 2013
We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and subjective well-being, and that there are systematic differences in this regard between countries that are characterized by a high or, respectively, low level of actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985895
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Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence
Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and … inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association …. Our findings suggest that their conclusions are qualitatively rather insensitive to the specific measure of ‘happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596419
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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273880