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World Database of happiness: Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’
Veenhoven, Ruut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Social scientists are producing an ever growing stream of research findings, which is ever more difficult to oversee. As a result, capitalization on earlier investment declines and accumulation of knowledge stagnates. This situation calls for more research synthesis and interest in synthetic...
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Okun's and Barro's Misery Index as an Alternative Poverty Assessment Tool. Recent Estimations for European Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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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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Accounting for Unobserved Country Heterogeneity in Happiness Research: Country Fixed Effects versus Region Fixed Effects
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Many empirical studies are ambiguous about whether good formal institutions are conducive to subjective well-being or not. Possibly, this ambiguity is caused by cross-section models that do not account for unobserved cultural and institutional effects. Using the World Value Survey 1980-2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536074
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Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence
Bjornskov, Christian; Fischer, Justina AV; Dreher, Axel - 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/10005027130
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Does high involvement management improve worker wellbeing?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than “like” employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a...
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Objectivizing the Subjective: Measuring Subjective Wellbeing
Pillai N., Vijayamohanan; B. P., Asalatha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
objective indicators. Section 3 details the subjective approach to wellbeing in terms of life satisfaction, represented by … measures of global life-satisfaction, affect balance, average domain satisfaction and income. Section 4 presents a list of … variables which are correlated with global reports of life satisfaction and happiness, such as smiling frequency, sociability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114185
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Households’ Willingness to Pay for Undergrounding Electricity and Telecommunications Wires
McNair, Ben J.; Bennett, Jeff; Hensher, David A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Underground telecommunications and low-voltage electricity networks have several advantages over overhead networks including reliability of supply, safety and improved visual amenity. The economic viability of replacing existing overhead networks with new underground networks depends on the...
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The seeming unreliability of rank-ordered data as a consequence of model misspecification
Yan, Jin; Yoo, Hong Il - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The rank-ordered logit model's coefficients often vary significantly with the depth of rankings used in the estimation process. The common interpretation of the unstable coefficients across ranks is that survey respondents state their more and less preferred alternatives in an incoherent manner....
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