Well-being inequality is a subject that has being extensively covered and which is widely discussed also in the political and civil environment. However, the majority of the studies done in this field are still limited to the analysis of monetary variables, like income, wealth or expenditure, completely forsaking non-monetary elements such as education, health or employment on the basis that...
Deutschland hat einen der größten Niedriglohnsektoren in Europa. Trotz Beschäftigungsboom und starkem Wirtschaftswachstum verdient jeder vierte abhängig Beschäftigte – rund acht Millionen Personen – hierzulande weniger als 10,80 Euro brutto pro Stunde. Dort liegt derzeit die sogenannte Niedriglohnschwelle. Europaweit liegt der Anteil bei einem Sechstel. Betroffen ...
A landmark study published in PNAS (Côté S, House J, Willer R, 2015, 112:15838–15843, doi:10.1073/pnas.1511536112) showed that higher income individuals are less generous than poorer individuals only if they reside in a U.S. state with comparatively large economic inequality. This finding might serve to reconcile inconsistent findings on the effect of social class on generosity by highlighting the ...
