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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
The public health literature focusing on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of … 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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The Significance of the Individuals’ Time for Economic and Social Development
Istrate, Georgeta-Marinela; Caragea, Nicoleta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In the globalization context, the last decades have changed the national economies, and also affected the time allocation patterns for individuals and for the entire society. As an economic resource, time is perceived very different by people, because of various individuals’ norms and values,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259357
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Time Use and Work Arrangements in Romania
Istrate, Georgeta-Marinela; Caragea, Nicoleta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The globalization process has many implications in the national economies development, changing the every day life of people. If we take a look on the labour market of last decades it is easy to observe the changes of national time allocation patterns for individuals and also for the entire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113152
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Asymmetrically Dominated Choice Problems, the Isolation Hypothesis and Random Incentive Mechanisms
Cox, James C.; Sadiraj, Vjollca; Schmidt, Ulrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
isolation hypothesis of prospect theory holds. We present a simple test of isolation in the context of choice under risk. In the … isolation hypothesis. The random incentive mechanism thus does not elicit true preferences in our example. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109364
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Methodology Does Matter: About Implicit Assumptions in Applied Formal Modelling. The case of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models vs Agent-Based Models
Gräbner, Claudius - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
one wishes to identify the right degree of isolation required to understand reality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206891
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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