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Inequality and poverty in Greece: Changes in times of crisis
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros; … - 2017
effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the … period 2007-2014. The results show that inequality rose but the magnitude of the change varies across indices. The recorded … contribution of disparities between educational groups to aggregate inequality declined while that of disparities between socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721299
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Trends and Drivers of Inequality: Recent Evidence from Vietnam
Dang, Trang Huyen; Nguyen, Cuong Viet; Phung, Tung Duc - 2022
This study provides evidence on the trends and drivers of inequality in Vietnam using Vietnam Household Living Standard … Surveys. We find that inequality, regardless of the choice of welfare indicators and inequality measurements, has been stable … in Vietnam. Inequality in income or expenditure is remarkably lower than inequality in assets. In 2016, the Gini …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163451
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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gaston - 2021
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649290
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The Long-Lasting Effects of Family and Childhood on Adult Wellbeing: Evidence from British Cohort Data
Flèche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Clark, Andrew E. - 2018
To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this link has been carried out either at one particular adult age or for some average over adulthood. We here use two British birth-cohort datasets (the 1958 NCDS and the 1970 BCS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796375
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Feeling Richer and Happier? Self-Perceived Economic Welfare and Life Satisfaction: Evidence of 'Easterlin Paradox' from Russian Longitudinal Data
Jin, Olivia S.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2020
suggests the importance of studying subjective economic welfare, with possible implications on income inequality. Our findings … suggest that a society with high income inequality, in which a small proportion of the population earns a large proportion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253980
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Sometimes your best just ain't good enough: The worldwide evidence on subjective well-being efficiency
Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2020
Most of the studies on subjective well-being focus on the determinants of absolute life satisfaction or happiness levels. This paper asks an important but understudied question, namely, could countries achieve the same or even higher subjective well-being by using the same resources more...
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The Easterlin Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; O’Connor, Kelsey J. - 2020
The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point...
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A measure of well-being efficiency based on the World Happiness Report
Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
We propose a measure of well-being efficiency to assess countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well-being (Cantril ladder). We use the six inputs (real GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom of choice, absence of corruption, and generosity) identified in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093093
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Double-edged sword: Persistent effects of Communism on life satisfaction
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2021
Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...
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Can Women’s Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Anand, Paul; Saxena, Swati; Gonzalez, Rolando; Dang, … - 2019
This paper investigates a women’s self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training, health and nutrition education, and political...
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