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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty : a brief assessment of the literature
Ceriani, Lidia; Hlásny, Vladimír; Verme, Paolo - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184490
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Relational well-being and the many dimensions of poverty in Italy
Dalla Chiara, Elena; Perali, Federico - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013535727
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On the measurement of well-being with reference consumption
Moramarco, Domenico; Maniquet, François - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014316517
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The influence of macroeconomic conditions and institutional quality on national levels of life satisfaction
Walsh, Brendan M. - 2012
Answers to the Eurobarometer question on Life Satisfaction are used to explore the effects of macroeconomic performance … between 2004 and 2011. It is found that variations in national levels of life satisfaction can largely be accounted by a small … number of socio-economic indicators. Life satisfaction is lowest in poor, corrupt countries where income inequality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733107
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Are the effects of height on well-being a tall tale?
Denny, Kevin - 2015
-country data from Europe is used to analyse whether individuals' height is associated with higher or lower levels of life-satisfaction …. In simple models there is a positive but concave relationship between height and life satisfaction. However it is shown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392110
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The impact of terrorism on well-being : evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing
Clark, Andrew E.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Doyle, Orla - 2017
A growing literature concludes that terrorism impacts the economy, yet less is known about its impact on utility. This paper estimates the impact of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing on well-being, by exploiting representative U.S. daily data. Using both a regression discontinuity and an event...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714846
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Descriptive labor market outcomes of immigrant women across Europe
Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana M.; Herranz, Virginia - 2020
We consider the job progression of immigrant women in five European countries: France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK. We complement data from the European Labour Force Survey (2005-2015), with information about the skills contained in the jobs held by women, using data from the O*Net. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179037
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Ordinal and cardinal measures of health inequality : an empirical comparison
Madden, David - 2008
When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based upon ordinal data and more standard indices using ordinal data which has been transformed into cardinal data. This paper compares inequality rankings across a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723864
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Life satisfaction, subjective wealth, and adaptation to vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424695