Self-assessed well-being and economic rank in South Africa

被引:11
作者
Posel, Dorrit [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ KwaZulu Natal, ZA-4041 Durban, South Africa
关键词
subjective well-being; life satisfaction; relative income; perceived economic rank; LIFE SATISFACTION; INCOME;
D O I
10.1080/0376835X.2013.851020
中图分类号
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
This study explores subjective measures of well-being in South Africa collected in the first two waves of the National Income Dynamics Study. These subjective measures include individual life satisfaction, current self-assessed economic rank and expected economic rank in the future. The paper describes how the distributions of these measures have changed over the course of the panel and it investigates the relationship between life satisfaction and perceived economic rank in a multivariate context, controlling for individual fixed effects. The panel data suggest a leftward shift in the distribution of life satisfaction over the two waves. Moreover, the majority of adults did not perceive their economic rank as having improved and they reported lower expectations of future upward economic mobility. Perceptions of current and future economic rank are key correlates of life satisfaction, findings that remain robust to controls for unobserved individual heterogeneity.
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页码:51 / 64
页数:14
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