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between informal employment and household poverty and life satisfaction, but it is not robust to changes in econometric … controlling for work conditions, informal workers do not have statistically significantly lower job satisfaction and under no … specification or sample composition. The authors conclude that the evidence indicates that informal employment in the Russian …
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Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as its main measure of disaster severity. Using a new,...
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reflects changes in perceived satisfaction with living standards and the ability to have a purposeful and meaningful life …
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. Beginning to consider migration is associated with low life satisfaction, job loss, and unemployment. In contrast, actually … payments when household members have deteriorating life satisfaction and/or subjective reports of worsening economic conditions … migrants were to find formal employment at the local prevailing median wage …
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This study examines the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is...
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This paper uses data from the Integrated Values Survey, the Life in Transition Survey, and the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to analyze the relation between age and subjective well-being in the Europe and Central Asia region. Although the results generally confirm the findings of...
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This article examines how economic shocks affect individual well-being in developing countries. Using the case of a sudden and unanticipated currency devaluation in Botswana as a quasi-experiment, the article examines how this monetary shock affects individuals' evaluations of well-being. This...
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Substantial upward economic mobility in the majority of countries in Europe and Central Asia in the 2000s translated into achievements in reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. Although factors associated with upward mobility vary significantly by country, education and jobs...
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While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods can be deceptive given systematic heterogeneity in respondents'scales. Little is known about this problem. This study uses specially-designed surveys in three countries,...
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reducing levels of discrimination. It finds that job loss has particularly strong effects on levels of satisfaction that are …
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