Reduction of Income Inequality and Subjective Well-Being in Europe
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Inequality and Subjective Well-Being
Diminishing marginal well-being from income suggests that redistributing income from the rich to the poor will raise average levels of well-being within a society. This utilitarian logic suggests that— conditional on average income—countries with greater income inequality will experience lower levels of average well-being. Yet existing research has failed to find clear evidence that inequality ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Economics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1864-6042
DOI: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2014-35