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Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society
Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - EconWPA - 2004
Using a South African data set, the paper poses six questions about the determinants of subjective well-being. Much of the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income – measured as average income of others in the local residential cluster - enters the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118826
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561269
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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
The article analyses further develops the neo-dependency approach already presented by the same author and looks at recent time series trends in the structure of international capital penetration, international savings, and the dynamics of “unequal transfer” and their effects on social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556011
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Happiness in Eastern Europe
Hayo, Bernd - EconWPA - 2004
This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in seven Eastern European transition countries during the early phase of economic transition. The analysis of representative survey data in an ordered logit model shows that those core socio-demographic and economic variables known to be relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560958
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Perception of Income Satisfaction: An Analysis of Slovenian Households
Stanovnik, Tine; Verbic, Miroslav - EconWPA - 2004
. Variables that tend to capture income aspirations are also included, such as variables describing the socioeconomic structure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561525
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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125619
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Subjective Economic Well-Being in Eastern Europe
Hayo, Bernd; Seifert, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2002
This paper analyses subjective economic well-being in several Eastern European countries from 1991 to 1995. Economic well-being explains a significant part of the variation in overall life satisfaction of Eastern Europeans. In an ordered logit model, the determinants of subjective economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407684
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407734
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Intra-household Work Time Synchronization
Klaveren, Chris van; Brink, Henriette Maassen van den - EconWPA - 2005
If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in order to increase the amount of joint leisure time. This paper tries to answer three questions using a new matching procedure where couples are matched to other couples. (1) Do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556767
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of … reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to … accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades, especially for the poor in African countries such as Nigeria, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556956