TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Senik, Claudia
        TI  - Ambition and Jealousy: Income Interactions in the "Old" Europe versus the "New" Europe and the United States
        PY  - 2006/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2083
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2083
        AB  - This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation depends on the degree of mobility and uncertainty in the economy. It mostly concentrates on the relation between satisfaction and reference income (defined as the income of one’s professional peers), and hinges on the micro-econometric analysis of household survey data (mostly panel), including subjective attitudinal questions. Using over one million observations, it uncovers a divide between "old" -low mobility- European countries versus "new" European post-Transition countries and the United States. Whereas "jealousy" is dominant in the former, "ambition" is even stronger in the latter.
        KW  - European Union
KW  - subjective well-being
KW  - comparison income
KW  - income distribution
KW  - Transition
        ER  -