Is Inequality in Subjective Well-Being Meritocratic? Danish Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data
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Keywords
Subjective well-being; inequality; intergenerational mobility;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- D30 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - General
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2022-10-03 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HAP-2022-10-03 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-LTV-2022-10-03 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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