income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how …

; relative income ; life satisfaction ; German Socio Economic Panel Study ; SOEP … income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask …

income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how …

income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how …

In questions inserted into the 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel we ask subjects to report their income … data we are able to study how important income comparisons are to subjective well-being, and which comparisons are … relatively more important. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much better predictors of …

income. 2) In the West German Socio-Economic Panel since 1984 the same istrue but with life satisfaction as the dependant … variable. We also use the Panel to compare the effect of income comparisons and of adaptation as factors explaining the stable … level of life-satisfaction: income comparisons emerge as much the more important. 3) When in our U.S. analysis we introduce …

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … for other reference groups, such as neighbours. Work-related income comparisons are mostly upwards and there is a strong …

Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on … whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their … relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct information on income comparison intensity and perceived relative …

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … for other reference groups, such as neighbours. Work-related income comparisons are mostly upwards and there is a strong …

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … for other reference groups, such as neighbours. Work-related income comparisons are mostly upwards and there is a strong …