Relative Standing and Subjective Well-Being in South Africa: The Role of Perceptions, Expectations and Income Mobility

Posel, Dorrit; Casale, Daniela

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“…On average, male respondents tended to be happier than female. This finding seems to be in line with those of Posel and Casale (2011) and Layard (2011). Blaauw and Pretorius (2013), using the National Income Dynamics Survey dataset in South Africa, also found that females overall had lower levels of well-being relative to males, but surprisingly, the interacting variable between married males and married females indicated that married females were happier than their male counterparts.…”

Section: Differences In Average Happinesssupporting

confidence: 93%

“…Inequalities have negative effects on reported happiness in South Africa and other countries too (Posel & Casale, 2011;Sachs, 2012). Societies with low income inequalities tend to be happier, with high levels of trust (Wilkinson & Pickett, 2010).…”

Section: Income and Happinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hinks and Gruen (2007) found that individuals in South Africa with tertiary education are happier than those with no education. In the South African context of multiple ethnicities and the legacy of apartheid, the African population seems to have had lower levels of reported well-being relative to the white or other groups, all other factors being equal (Kingdon & Knight, 2006;Moller, 2007;Posel & Casale, 2011;Ebrahim, Botha & Snowball, 2013;Blaauw & Pretorius, 2013).…”

Section: Education Social Capital and Ethnic Influences On Happinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Influences on happiness and subjective well-being of entrepreneurs and labour: Kwazulu-Natal case study

Mahadea¹,

Ramroop²

2015

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Globally, individuals seek happiness, but not everybody is happy. Economic reasoning suggests that rising incomes with expansions in GDP enhance the quality of life and subjective well-being. This paper examines the influences on individual happiness, using ordinal logistic regression and chi-square analyses. Based on the findings of a small case study, the chi-square test indicated that a significant relationship exists between gender, education, ethnicity, children, marital status, employment relations, income and self-reported happiness. The study also found that, on average, happier people tended to be educated, married with children, and treated fairly at work. But having too many children produced a decrement in individual happiness. The ordinal regression results indicate that an individual's education, gender, age distribution and work environment are influential in producing higher levels of happiness. Entrepreneurs were found to have a significantly higher mean level of happiness than employees. In the workplace, individuals who experienced personal growth and were able to contribute their ideas tended to be happier, relative to others who perceived themselves to be 'restricted'.

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Section: Differences In Average Happinesssupporting

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Section: Income and Happinessmentioning

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Section: Education Social Capital and Ethnic Influences On Happinessmentioning

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2015

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“…The ladder question is one of three alternative ways that have been used in surveys to elicit perceived social rankings. With some variation, the ladder question has been used in surveys carried out in Europe (Riffault, 1991), the Philippines (Mangahas, 1995), Russia (Ravallion and Lokshin, 1999;2002), and South Africa (Posel and Casale, 2011). A second alternative, recently applied in Argentina by Cruces, Pérez-Truglia, and Tetaz (2013), is to pose precise questions about an individual's perception of her place in the income distribution.…”

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“…Subjective social rankings are important in people's lives: perceived social ranking is associated with subjective well-being, which is significantly stronger than objective measures based on reported income (Posel and Casale, 2011). Efforts to ascend in the perceived social ranking through consumption of some goods may distract individuals from more satisfying activities, and may in the end prove illusory (Frank, 1985).…”

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The Distance between Perception and Reality in the Social Domains of Life

Lora

2013

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Inter-American Development Bank, its Board of Directors, or the countries they represent. Terms of use: Documents inThe unauthorized commercial use of Bank documents is prohibited and may be punishable under the Bank's policies and/or applicable laws.Copyright © Inter-American Development Bank. This working paper may be reproduced for any non-commercial purpose. It may also be reproduced in any academic journal indexed by the American Economic Association's EconLit, with previous consent by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), provided that the IDB is credited and that the author(s) receive no income from the publication. The distance between perception and reality with respect to the social domains of life is often striking. Using survey data collected on Latin American countries, this paper provides an overview of the main empirical findings on the gaps between perception and reality in four social domains-health, employment, the perception of security, and social ranking. The overview emphasizes the psychological biases that may explain the gaps. Biases associated with cultural values are very relevant with respect to health and job satisfaction. Cultural differences across countries are pronounced in perceptions of health, while cultural differences across socioeconomic groups are more apparent with respect to job satisfaction. Affect and availability heuristics are the dominant sources of bias in the case of perceptions of security. The formation of subjective social rankings appears to be less culturally dependent but more dependent on the socioeconomic development in the country. The gaps between objective and subjective indicators in the social domains of life are a rich source of data to help understand how perceptions are formed, identify important aspects of people's lives that do not appear in official indicators, inform public debate on social policy, and shed light on public attitudes on key social issues. Cataloging-in-Publication JEL Codes: I19, J28, Z13

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Human capital development practices and career success: The moderating role of country development and income inequality

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Employees can enhance their human capital through participation in organizationally sponsored development activities. However, there is little research on the extent to which the effects of such practices vary depending on national context. Adopting a human capital theory perspective, we hypothesized a positive relationship between human capital development practices experienced in one's career and objective and subjective career success (salary level and perceived financial success, respectively) and tested two country-level institutional factors (country development and income inequality) as moderators. Results from our multi-level analyses of a large-scale sample of over 8800 managers and professionals from 28 countries showed that, as expected, experiencing a larger number of different human capital development practices was associated with higher salary level and greater perceived financial success. The relationship between development practices and salary level was stronger in the case of developed countries and weakly negatively affected for countries with higher income inequality. The relationship between development practices and perceived financial success was weaker for developed countries and unaffected by income inequality. Our research thus identifies boundary conditions to the application of human capital theory in different contexts and contributes to the comparative careers literature by showing that institutional factors affect the outcome of organizationally sponsored development activities.

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Relative Standing and Subjective Well-Being in South Africa: The Role of Perceptions, Expectations and Income Mobility

Abstract: Subjective well-being, Relative standing, Perceptions, Expectations, Income mobility, South Africa,

Cited by 92 publications

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Influences on happiness and subjective well-being of entrepreneurs and labour: Kwazulu-Natal case study

Influences on happiness and subjective well-being of entrepreneurs and labour: Kwazulu-Natal case study

The Distance between Perception and Reality in the Social Domains of Life

Human capital development practices and career success: The moderating role of country development and income inequality

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