“…We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings into two broad types of individual attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the normative and the comparative view. …”

“…This mean-preserving declining spread in happiness comes about via falls in both the share of individuals who declare low and high levels of happiness. …”

“…These findings survive a variety of methods aimed at accounting for unobserved individual and job-specific characteristics. We investigate two potential channels for this effect. …”

“…We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. …”

“…"We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. …”

“…We use panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. …”

“…"We construct indicators of the perception of job security for various types of jobs in 12 European countries using individual data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). …”