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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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Happiness in Eastern Europe

Hayo, Bernd - EconWPA - 2004

happiness in Eastern Europe. In addition, rural dwellers and church goers experience greater life- satisfaction. Aggregate …This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in seven Eastern European transition countries during the early phase … unemployment can explain more of the cross- country variation in happiness than income per capita. …

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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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Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized respondents currently living in higher crime areas. However, we find a …

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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 … results indicate that the commonly used measures of well-being - labour market situation, health, housing conditions and … social relations - significantly influence people’s satisfaction, ceteris paribus. Next, the stability of preferences is …

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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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The Role of Social Capital in Economic Development. Investigating the Causal Nexus through Structural Equations Models

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

and indicators of the state of health of urban ecosystems, public services, social protection, gender equality, and labour …

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Economic Growth, Well-Being and Governance under Economic Reforms: Evidence from Indian States

Basu, Sudip Ranjan - EconWPA - 2005

This paper provides empirical evidence, from the study of sixteen major Indian states for the period 1980-2001, that under the economic reform process, the better institutional mechanism could actually help economies to grow faster with higher level of economic well-being. We estimate economic...

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Correlating Growth with Well-Being during Economic Reforms Evidence from India and China

Basu, Sudip Ranjan - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the hypothesis that economic growth is critical in inducing well-being during economic reforms. The regional (16 Indian states and 28 Chinese provinces) level study of India and China show that the quality of growth has been essential for well-being. We estimate level of...

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