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Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration
Herrmann, Peter; Maesen, Laurent J.G. van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
discussion on traditional problems as poverty, marginalisation and exclusion. Our thesis is that these problems, far from being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836955
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Women's Autonomy and Subjective Well-Being in India: How Village Norms Shape the Impact of Self-Help Groups
De Hoop, Thomas; Van Kempen, Luuk; Linssen, Rik; Van … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
, India. We find that, on average, self-help group membership does not affect subjective well-being. However, our results at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680304
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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
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Deprivation profile in Cameroon: A combined analysis of Poverty and Social Exclusion
Miamo Wendji, Clovis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this study, we analyze the privations welfare in Cameroon considering poverty and social exclusion. The framework … provided by the capability approach and construction of indicators of poverty and social exclusion by the fuzzy method from … ECAM III survey data shows that the overall level of poverty and social exclusion (respectively 0.4008 and 0.2291), are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275134
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An action plan to assess the current situation of maternal & newborn care at government health facilities in Jharkhand, India
Kumar, Sudesh; Singh, Janet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Maternal and child health care especially safe motherhood services are an important factor in the primary health care and are the responsibility of the government and ministry of health. Consolidating and strengthening health network and quality of primary health care is one of the priority...
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Receptarea soap-opera de către tineri. Studiu de caz: „Beverly Hills”
Branea, Silvia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Besides the theoretical approach, the paper also includes an research conducted with students of the Faculty of Jornalism and Communication at the University of Bucarest. The main objective of this research was to determine the extent to which the media fiction (television series for youth)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257700
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Identity, Nostalgia and Happiness among Migrants: The Case of the Kōshien High School Baseball Tournament in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
High school baseball is very popular in Japan. All games of the high school baseball tournaments are publicly broadcasted. This paper hypothesizes that high school baseball influences the happiness level of the Japanese. Individual level data in Japan was used to test this hypothesis. The key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260877
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The relationship between happiness and health: evidence from Italy
Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample (n = 817) of the population of the Italian Province of Trento in March 2011. Based on probit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009022007
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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match
Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of individual labor-market participation under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683292
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Women’s representation in local politics: Evidence from The Philippines
Valente, Jordan; Moreno, Frede - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Although at the beginning of the 21st century, over 95 percent of all countries in the world have granted women the right to vote and the right to stand for election (Ballington & Karam, 2005), gender equality in terms of representation in political structures remains to be a challenge around...
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