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Una misurazione del benessere nelle regioni italiane

Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

La limitazione del benessere ai soli aspetti reddituali ignora numerose dimensioni e condizioni fondamentali per il realizzarsi delle potenzialità individuali. Obiettivo dell’articolo è quello di fornire una misura multidimensionale di benessere per le Regioni italiane, che superi la...

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A Model of Demographic and Economic Processe Interaction

Olenev, Nicholas; Sarancha, Dmitry - EconWPA - 2003

This paper gives a description of fertility influence on education level of population and its well-being. We carry out the consideration by a demographic model keeping age structure. We suppose that (i) a part of GDP ia used for investment in education, (ii) the production level depends on the...

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Are there Regional Variations in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment in South Africa?

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

Are certain groups of unemployed individuals hurt less by unemployment than others? This paper is an attempt to test the hypothesis that non- pecuniary costs of unemployment may vary between societies with different unemployment rates. Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show...

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Knowing what is good for you. Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the “objective good”

Lelkes, Orsolya - EconWPA - 2005

between these two in the case of basic needs. For the analysis, individuals’ self-reported life satisfaction is used as a … social relations - significantly influence people’s satisfaction, ceteris paribus. Next, the stability of preferences is … between life satisfaction and basic measures of well-being despite the landslide of societal and economic transformation. …

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Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross-sectional data from the OHS97 survey of South Africa, we show that victims report significantly lower well-being than the non-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized...

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Knowing what is good for you. Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the 'objective good'

Lelkes, Orsolya - EconWPA - 2005

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Population Growth in European Cities: weather matters – but only nationally

Paul_Cheshire; Stefano_Magrini - EconWPA - 2004

This paper investigates differences in the rate of growth of population across the large city-regions of the EU12 between 1980 and 2000. The US model which assumes perfect factor mobility does not seem well adapted to European conditions. There is evidence strongly suggesting that equilibrating...

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Gross National Happiness as an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?

Tella, Rafael Di; MacCulloch, Robert - EconWPA - 2005

The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility function. One possible answer is that human development...

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Introducing a scale of market shocks

Zumbach, Gilles O.; Dacorogna, Michel M.; Olsen, Jorgen L. - EconWPA - 2004

Two 'event' scales for financial markets, called 'scale of market shocks' (SMS), are introduced, which measure the importance of the market movements. These indices are based on the price volatility and are computed by integrating mapped asset volatilities over time horizons that range from 1...

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Asset measurement in the costing of government services

EconWPA; Steering Committee for the Review of … - 2001

Differences in asset measurement techniques can have a major impact on reported capital costs. Their influence on total … that different methods of asset measurement could lead to quite large variations in reported capital costs. Considered in … the context of total unit costs, however, the differences created by these asset measurement effects were relatively small …

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