Does Relative Income Matter? Are the Critics Right?

International Differences in Well-Being

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Layard, R ^a   Mayraz, G ^a   Nickell, S ^a  

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Author keywords

Happiness; Income; International; Life satisfaction; National

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921821870     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732739.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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