naa a22 4500 510742297 CHVBK 20180411083032.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11482-012-9186-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11482-012-9186-6 Kifle Temesgen School of Economics, The University of Queensland, Room 653, Level 6, Colin Clark Building (39), St Lucia, 4072, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia aut Relative Income and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Australia [Elektronische Daten] [Temesgen Kifle] Using the first six waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey dataset, a linear fixed effects model is used to examine the link between relative income and overall job satisfaction in Australia. In this paper, relative income is constructed using cell average by age group, gender and education level. The findings indicate that (i) relative income has a significant negative impact on overall job satisfaction for men but not for women; and (ii) for the whole sample and for men, income comparisons are asymmetric and upwards, meaning that the loss in overall job satisfaction by the poor from having an income below that of their reference group is significantly greater than the gain by the rich from knowing that they earn above that of their reference group. Overall, the evidence found is consistent with Dueseneberry's hypothesis that relative income matters and comparison effect is asymmetric and mostly upwards. Springer Science+Business Media B.V./The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), 2012 Asymmetry nationallicence Australia nationallicence Comparison income nationallicence Job satisfaction nationallicence Reference group income nationallicence Relative income nationallicence Applied Research in Quality of Life Springer Netherlands 8/2(2013-06-01), 125-143 1871-2584 8:2<125 2013 8 11482 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-012-9186-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-012-9186-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kifle Temesgen School of Economics, The University of Queensland, Room 653, Level 6, Colin Clark Building (39), St Lucia, 4072, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Applied Research in Quality of Life Springer Netherlands 8/2(2013-06-01), 125-143 1871-2584 8:2<125 2013 8 11482 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer