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Satisfaction and Expectations: Attitudes to publicservices in deprived areas

Duffy, Bobby - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

Based on outcomes for residents and qualitative studies, it is widelythought that public services meet the needs of residents less well indeprived areas, and that this is due to both the demands placed onservices being greater and the services themselves being of a lowerquality. This paper looks...

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Social Welfare Systems in East Asia:A Comparative Analysis Including Private Welfare

Jacobs, Didier - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five EastAsian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong andSingapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as incomedistribution aspects, based on both aggregate data and a programme-byprogrammereview of their...

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Talking to Families in East London

Mumford, Katharine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

Katharine Mumford reports on her first round of interviews with 100 familiesliving in two East London neighbourhoods. CASE’s qualitative, longitudinalstudy in low income areas seeks to understand area change from theperspective of families, and to uncover the significance of area conditions...

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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois : … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2009

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improveenvironmental quality and thus individuals’ well-being. However, how do individuals valuethe environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representinga new non-market valuation...

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Are one man’s rags another man’s riches?Identifying adaptive expectations using panel data

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

[...]This paper contributes to the identification of adaptive expectations by using ten years of panel data from the British Household Panel Survey to study the process of adaptation based on the individual’s own previous experience. Subjective assessments of financial well-being at time t,...

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Tasting freedom: Happiness, religion and economictransition

Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect allequally. This paper uses Hungarian survey data … to study the impact ofreligion and economic transition on happiness. Religious involvementcontributes positively to … of happiness for the religious. The impact ofeconomic transition has varied greatly across different groups. The …

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International Evidence on Well-being

Blanchflower, David G. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely … be replaced by the U-index. e know little about the predictive power of the U-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data … to the happiness data the US ranks above France bI find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both …

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Gründe für die Auswanderung von Fach- und Führungskräften aus Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft

Prognos AG <Basel> - 2007

Das Wanderungsverhalten von qualifizierten Arbeitskräften ist einwichtiger Indikator zur Beurteilung der internationalen WettbewerbsfähigkeitDeutschlands. In wie weit es gelingt, deutscheFach- und Führungskräfte aus dem wissenschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichenBereich am Standort zu halten...

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Experienced versus Decision Utility of Income: Relative or Absolute Happiness

Vendrik, Maarten; Hirata, Johannes - 2003

This paper investigates relative or absolute happiness. …

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Stress That Doesn´t Pay : The Commuting Paradox

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

People spend more and more time commuting and often find it a burden. According to economics, the burden of commuting is chosen when compensated either on the labor or on the housing market so that individuals utility is equalized....

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