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Beyond GDP and back : what is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?

New, Sonja C. de; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

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World database of happiness : example of a focused 'findings archive'

Veenhoven, Ruut - 2011

of Happiness is an example of such a tool. The archive is tailored to meet the requirements of assembling research … findings on happiness; both distributional findings (how happy people are) and correlational findings (what things go together … with happiness). With its focus on 'findings' the system differs from data-archives that store 'investigations' and from …

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Das Bruttonationalglück aus ordnungspolitischer Sicht : eine Analyse des Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftssystems von Bhutan

Pfaff, Tobias - 2011

Anschluss an die aktuelle Debatte zu Wachstum, Wohlstand und Lebensqualität in Deutschland. -- Gross National Happiness ; Bhutan …

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Well-being in Germany : GDP and unemployment still matter

Vatter, Johannes - 2012

This paper examines regional differences in subjective well-being (SWB) in Germany. Inferential statistics indicate a diminishing but still significant gap between East and West Germany, but also differing levels of SWB within both parts. The observed regional pattern of life satisfaction...

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Measuring well-being : W3 Indicators to complement GDP

Giesselmann, Marco; Hilmer, Richard; Siegel, Nico A.; … - 2013

Numerous people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that the gross domestic product (GDP) is an outdated indicator of a society's prosperity. Therefore, at the end of 2010, the German Bundestag, the federal parliament, established a study commission (Enquete-Kommission)...

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