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The dynamics of perceived financial difficulties

Alessio, FUSCO - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2013

The perceptions of individuals regarding their own economic situation are sometimes used to measure individuals’ welfare or standard of living, thereby complementing the conventional income-based approach. While the importance of using longitudinal data when analysing the determinants of...

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Money, Trust and Happiness in Transition Countries: Evidence from Time Series

Stefano, BARTOLINI; Malgorzata, MIKUCKA; Francesco, … - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2012

The evolution over time of subjective well-being (SWB) in transition countries exhibit some peculiarities: greater variations which are more strongly correlated with the trends of GDP relative to other countries. What is the possible role of social trust in predicting such variations? We compare...

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Happy for How Long? How Social Capital and GDP relate to Happiness over Time

Stefano, BARTOLINI; Francesco, SARRACINO - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2011

What does predict the evolution over time of subjective well-being? We answer this question correlating cross country time series of subjective well-being with the time series of social capital and/or GDP. First, we adopt a bivariate methodology similar to the one used used by Stevenson and...

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Richer in money, poorer in relationship and unhappy? Time series comparisons of social capital and well-being in Luxembourg

Francesco, SARRACINO - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2011

The worrying decline of social capital (Putnam, 2000) and the disappointing trends of subjective well-being (Easterlin, 1974) raise urgent questions for modern societies: is the erosion of social capital a general feature of western societies or is it rather a characteristic aspect of the...

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Money, sociability and happiness : are developed countries doomed to social erosion and unhappiness?

Francesco, SARRACINO - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2011

Discovering whether social capital endowments in modern societies have been subjected or not to a process of gradual erosion is one of the most debated topics in recent economic literature. Inaugurated by Putnam’s pioneering studies, the debate on social capital trends has been recently...

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Great recession and U.S. consumers' bulimia: deep causes and possible ways out

Stefano, BARTOLINI; Luigi, BONATTI; Francesco, SARRACINO - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2012

This paper attempts to shed light on some aspects of the U.S. consumers’apparent bulimia that was at the origin of the recent global crisis. We seek to show how different characteristics of the American society and economy, which are usually considered separately, are consistently related to...

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Measuring deprivation in Spain

Perez-Mayo, Jesus - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2003

This paper analyses the deprivation in Spain based on ECHP data for 1996. Usually, an indirect approach for measuring deprivation or poverty is used with poverty lines. That is, income is used as a proxy for analysing living conditions. However, some studies have used a direct approach to...

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Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons within Europe. Evidence from the European Community Household Panel

Szeles, Monica - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2004

This paper is a cross-sectional study on multidimensional poverty comparisons among the European Union countries, based on data provided by the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to the empirical results and the methodological problems, the study underlines the opportunities...

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Distributional change, reference groups and the measurement of relative deprivation

Silber, Jacques; Verme, Paolo - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2009

This paper attempts to explicitly integrate the idea of reference group when measuring relative deprivation. It assumes that in assessing her situation in society an individual compares herself with individuals whose environment can be considered as being similar to hers. By environment we mean...

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Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Van Kerm, Philippe - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2003

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

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