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Measuring human wellbeing in Pakistan: objective versus subjective indicators
Haq, Rashida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
: literacy rate, net primary enrolment and gender equality in education are positively correlated with subjective satisfaction in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258655
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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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The great equalizer?: Globalization effects on gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Seguino, Stephanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper assesses the impact of 30 years of globalization on gender equity in well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean. Data indicate that while some gaps in well-being have narrowed, progress is uneven across a set of nine indicators, and in some cases, conditions have worsened. Despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790313
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Quality and quantity: the role of social interactions in individual health
Damiano, Fiorillo; Fabio, Sabatini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
is their quality – as measured by subjective satisfaction derived from relationships with friends – that works as the … carrying out the first assessment of the role of satisfaction in interpersonal relations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876881
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Does Working Longer Make People Healthier and Happier?
Calvo, Esteban - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
PURPOSE: This study addresses the impact of late-life paid work on physical and psychological well-being. METHODS: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged 59 to 69 who were working or not-working in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616686
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Job disamenities, job satisfaction, quit intentions, and actual separations: putting the pieces together
Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
behavior. Our data contain both detailed information on perceived job disamenities, job satisfaction, and quit intentions from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789877
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Interaction of job disamenities, job satisfaction, and sickness absences: Evidence from a representative sample of Finnish workers
Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper explores the potential role of adverse working conditions in the determination of workers’ sickness absences. Our data contain detailed information on the prevalence of job disamenities at the workplace from a representative sample of Finnish workers. The results from reduced-form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836237
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Longitudinal Analysis of Job Satisfaction in the Slovenian Police Service
Tomaževič, Nina; Seljak, Janko; Aristovnik, Aleksander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper examines the results of a job satisfaction survey of employees of the Police Service in Slovenia, whereby the … Service’, that was financed by the Ministry of the Interior, a survey on the job satisfaction and trust of police service … employees was conducted in March 2012. On the basis of earlier job satisfaction surveys (in 2002 and 2009) and their analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168669
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Outsourcing, occupational restructuring, and employee well-being: Is there a silver lining?
Petri, Böckerman; Mika, Maliranta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper explores the effects of outsourcing on employee well-being through the use of the Finnish linked employer-employee data. The direct negative effect of outsourcing is attributable to greater job destruction and worker outflow. In terms of perceived well-being, the winners in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110627
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Resilience of Microfinance Institutions to National Macroeconomic Events: An Econometric Analysis of MFI asset quality
Gonzalez, Adrian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
have high resilience to economic shocks. Specifically, we found only a significant relationship between growth and PAR-30 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260148