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Happiness and the human development index : Australia is not a paradox
Leigh, Andrew (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006
in place of the HDI. Indeed, in the World Values Survey, only one other country (Iceland) has a significantly higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003320917
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Migration, openness and the global preconditions of "smart development"
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2011
world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523002
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Cross sections are history
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
and a unique rate of diffusion throughout the world. Suppose too that initially all countries are fairly closely bunched … follower countries in the various parts of the world fall in line in a similar geographic order. The result will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730828
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Were COVID and the Great Recession well-being reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Using micro-data on six surveys - the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System … the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from … the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last decade or so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014325714
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Person equivalent headcount measures of poverty
Castleman, Tony; Foster, James E.; Smith, Stephen C. - 2015
countries as provided by the World Bank, and show how the new measures map out different pictures of poverty and progress than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347195
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Parenting style as an investment in human development
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zhu, Anna - 2016
We propose a household production function approach to human development in which the role of parenting style in child rearing is explicitly considered. Specifically, we model parenting style as an investment in human development that depends not only on inputs of time and market goods, but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450678
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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country
Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015
In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388311
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Happiness and the human development index : the paradox of Australia
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2005
According to the well-being measure known as the U.N. Human Development Index, Australia now ranks 3rd in the world and … have some of the lowest levels of job satisfaction in the world. Moreover, among the sub-sample of English-speaking nations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002815403
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Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator : inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income
Bloom, David E.; Fan, Victoria Y.; Kufenko, Vadim; … - 2020
Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can be calculated with manageable data requirements....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169722
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Union membership and age : the inverted u-shape hypothesis under test
Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
In this note we cast some doubt on the claim put forward by David Blanchflower (2007) that the probability of being unionized follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in age with a maximum in the mid- to late 40s. By using a special test for an inverted U-shaped pattern that has not been applied to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778856