Income Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Employees in Germany
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Keywords
social comparison; German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP); prestige; envy; job satisfaction; income inequality; information effect (tunnel effect);All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2006-04-22 (Business Economics)
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