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Happiness and the human development index: Australia is not a paradox
Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - 2006
In Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia, Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267311
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Social housing and location choices of immigrants in France
Fougère, Denis; Kramarz, Francis; Rathelot, Roland; … - 2011
Our study examines the empirical links between social housing policy and location choices of immigrants in France. More specifically, we characterize the main individual and contextual determinants of the probability for immigrants to live in a HLM (habitations à loyer modéré, dwelling with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285988
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Social Housing and Location Choices of Immigrants in France
Fougère, Denis; Kramarz, Francis; Rathelot, Roland; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Our study examines the empirical links between social housing policy and location choices of immigrants in France. More specifically, we characterize the main individual and contextual determinants of the probability for immigrants to live in a HLM (habitations à loyer modéré, dwelling with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868125
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The Connexion between Old and New
van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2004
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed in the nineties by Oswald, Clark, Blanchflower and others with the older income evaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in the seventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261911
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Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern histories, there is no evidence on how it affected the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451202
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The Analysis of Human Feelings: A Practical Suggestion for a Robustness Test
Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021
Governments, multinational companies, and researchers today collect unprecedented amounts of data on human feelings. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental stress, societal trust, and other important variables. Yet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658211
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Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-being
Graham, Carol Lee; Nikolova, Milena - 2014
Life evaluations and emotional states are distinct subjective well-being (SWB) components. We explore the relationship between opportunities and SWB dimensions, distinguishing between actual capabilities and means (education, employment, and income) and perceived opportunities (autonomy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481615
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The Connexion between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed in the nineties by Oswald, Clark, Blanchflower and others with the older income evaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in the seventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761975
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Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-being
Graham, Carol Lee; Nikolova, Milena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Life evaluations and emotional states are distinct subjective well-being (SWB) components. We explore the relationship between opportunities and SWB dimensions, distinguishing between actual capabilities and means (education, employment, and income) and perceived opportunities (autonomy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105067
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Under Pressure? Assessing the Roles of Skills and Other Personal Resources for Work-Life Strains
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Ribar, David C.; Western, Mark - 2018
Labour Dynamics in Australia survey to investigate how personal resources in the form of skills, cognitive abilities, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984615