This survey summarises the insights that the new literature based on subjective data has shed on the issue of income inequality and income comparisons. It reviews the various channels that relate income distribution and subjective well-being. It considers the welfare effect of income gaps in general, both in terms of the difference between individual income and the income of some relevant other, and with regard to generic income distribution. Concerning income comparisons, the general lesson is that it is useful to distinguish status effects from signal effects: income comparisons hurt, but they may also increase life satisfaction when they mean good news; this is all the more likely as the reference group is made of people who most likely ...
© 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. In recent years there has been an accumulation of empirical evidence s...
How do income and income inequality combine to influence subjective well-being? We examined the rela...
This paper uses peer comparisons to analyze the impact of different types of inequalities (i.e., wit...
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the percei...
We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between i...
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the intera...
This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and explores the idea that thi...
We review the findings in surveys and experiments from the literature on attitudes to income inequal...
This study explains how income inequality affects life satisfaction in Europe. Although research abo...
Redistribution is often the subject of a debate in which those who advocate increased redistribution...
The subjective well-being approach to valuation is applied to the valuation of income inequality. Re...
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the percei...
Subjective well-being analysis of income inequality finds that very high levels of objective inequal...
Absolute and relative levels of income as well as income inequality are regarded as determinants of...
This paper provides direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect on subjective well-b...
© 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. In recent years there has been an accumulation of empirical evidence s...
How do income and income inequality combine to influence subjective well-being? We examined the rela...
This paper uses peer comparisons to analyze the impact of different types of inequalities (i.e., wit...
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the percei...
We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between i...
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the intera...
This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and explores the idea that thi...
We review the findings in surveys and experiments from the literature on attitudes to income inequal...
This study explains how income inequality affects life satisfaction in Europe. Although research abo...
Redistribution is often the subject of a debate in which those who advocate increased redistribution...
The subjective well-being approach to valuation is applied to the valuation of income inequality. Re...
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the percei...
Subjective well-being analysis of income inequality finds that very high levels of objective inequal...
Absolute and relative levels of income as well as income inequality are regarded as determinants of...
This paper provides direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect on subjective well-b...
© 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. In recent years there has been an accumulation of empirical evidence s...
How do income and income inequality combine to influence subjective well-being? We examined the rela...
This paper uses peer comparisons to analyze the impact of different types of inequalities (i.e., wit...