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The Size and Composition of Government Spending in Europe and Its Impact on Well-Being
Hessami, Zohal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper analyses whether large governments in Europe reflect efficient responses to a changing social and economic environment (‘welfare economic view’) as opposed to wasteful spending (‘public choice view’). To this end, the effect of government size on subjective well-being is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592928
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Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence
Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596419
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Globalization's Winners and Losers - Evidence from Life Satisfaction Data, 1975 - 2000
Hessami, Zohal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper analyzes the effect of globalization on subjective well-being by using a dataset that combines micro- and macro-level variables for the EU-15 countries from 1975 to 2000. The estimations provide evidence that - in line with theoretical predictions - globalization has benefited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693561
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The Welfare Effects of Social Mobility
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The question whether a socially mobile society is conducive to subjective well-being (SWB) has rarely been investigated. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the SWB effects of intergenerational earnings mobility and equality in education at the societal level. Using socio-demographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061673
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The Welfare Effects of Social Mobility: An Analysis for OECD countries.
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The question whether a socially mobile society is conducive to subjective well-being (SWB) has rarely been investigated. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the SWB effects of intergenerational earnings mobility and equality in educational attainment at the societal level. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109561
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Can religion buy happiness? The case of Singapore
Salahodjaev, Raufhon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper investigates the determinants of life satisfaction in Singapore. Specifically we explore the effect of religiosity on life satisfaction. Using World Values Survey data, we find that in general religiosity leads to higher levels of life satisfaction. However, we do not find link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114198
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Do people care for a sustainable future? Evidence from happiness data.
Bartolini, Stefano; Sarracino, Francesco; Theis, Laurent - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
While the various streams of environmentalism agree in claiming that the current patterns of economic activity are unsustainable for natural resources, they disagree in answering the following question: who is the responsible? Two different answers have been provided: the people or the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114438
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Crime, health and wellbeing – Longitudinal evidence from Mexico
Braakmann, Nils - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper uses variation in victimization probabilities between individuals living in the same community to shed new … of within-community differences in victimization risk on changes in self-rated and mental health. My results from fixed … effects and instrumental variable estimations point towards substantial negative health effects of actual victimization, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260973
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Feminism today
Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Feminism has been noticed at various stages of time and still is unnoticed. The acts of sexism are apparently at large and only dialogues are delivered without any prompt action. This paper highlights the stage of feminism now and its prospects for the better. This topic talks about women from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111012
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Crise de la dette et détresse sociale du peuple congolais
Izu, Akhenaton - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The objective of this paper is to highlight the idea according to wish the current misery of the DRC would be mainly dependent on the debt crisis of the years 1970-1980. To analyze this problem, the econometric approach was privileged and more precisely the cointegration. By the cointegration,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274391