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108 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6591
Are Relative-Income Effects Constant across the Well-being Distribution?
Santiago Budría
published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2013, 14 (4), 1379-1408
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6500
Comparing Real Wage Rates
Orley Ashenfelter
published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 617 - 642
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6419
Income Comparisons and Non-Cognitive Skills
Santiago Budría, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
published as 'Life Satisfaction, Income Comparisons and Individual Traits' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65 (2), 337 - 357
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6175
The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness
Claudia Senik
published as 'Why are the French so Unhappy? The Cultural Dimension of Happiness' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 106, 379-401.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6045
Age, Life-Satisfaction, and Relative Income: Insights from the UK and Germany
Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan, Max F. Steinhardt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5966
Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Andrew E. Clark
published in: Stefano Bartolini, Ennio Bilancini, Luigino Bruni, and Pier-Luigi Porta (Eds.), Policies for Happiness, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 62-94
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5903
Internal Migration in the United States
Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, Abigail Wozniak
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011, 25 (3), 173-196
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5609
Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and "The Broken Windows" Effect: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
Mathieu Lefèbvre, Pierre Pestieau, Arno Riedl, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published as 'Tax Evasion and Social Information: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 22, 401-425.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5609
Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and "The Broken Windows" Effect: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
Mathieu Lefèbvre, Pierre Pestieau, Arno Riedl, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published as 'Tax Evasion and Social Information: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 22, 401-425.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5595
Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?
Andrew E. Clark, Claudia Senik
published in: Robert Peccoud (Ed.), Measure For Measure: How Well Do We Measure Development?, Paris: STIN, 2011, 99-176
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5550
Social Comparison in the Workplace: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr, Benedikt Herrmann, Frédéric Schneider
revised version published as 'Social Comparison an Effort Provision' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (4), 877-898
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5465
Why Are Saving Rates So High in China?
Dennis T. Yang, Junsen Zhang, Shaojie Zhou
published in: Joseph Fan and Randall Morck (eds.), 2012, Capitalizing China. University of Chicago Press, 249-282
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5008
Rising Wages: Has China Lost Its Global Labor Advantage?
Dennis T. Yang, Vivian Chen, Ryan Monarch
published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2010, 15 (4), 482-504
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4842
Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality: Comparing the U.S. and Germany
Dirk Antonczyk, Thomas DeLeire, Bernd Fitzenberger
published in: Econometrics, 2018, 6 (2), 1-33
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4704
Why Do BLS Hours Series Tell Different Stories About Trends in Hours Worked?
Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart
published in: Katharine G. Abraham, Michael J. Harper, and James R. Spletzer (eds.), Labor in the New Economy, NBER Studies in Income and Wealth, University of Chicago Press, 2010, 343-372
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4687
Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis
Simon Gächter, Christian Thöni
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, 76 (3), 531-543
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4599
You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Cahit Guven, Claudia Senik, Holger Stichnoth
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 82 (1), 110-130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4581
The Distributional Impact of In Kind Public Benefits in European Countries
Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, Panos Tsakloglou
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010, 29(2), 243–266
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4414
Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe
Andrew E. Clark, Claudia Senik
published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (544), 573-594
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4390
Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence
Guy Mayraz, Gert G. Wagner, Jürgen Schupp
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