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Measuring Natural Risks in the Philippines : Socioeconomic Resilience and Wellbeing Losses
Walsh, Brian James - 2019
million Filipinos per year face transient consumption poverty due to natural disasters. Nationally, the bottom income quintile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893747
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Subjective Well-Being and Peaceful Uprisings
Witte, Caroline T. - 2019
reflects changes in perceived satisfaction with living standards and the ability to have a purposeful and meaningful life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894753
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Economic Shocks and Subjective Well-Being : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Hariri, Jacob Gerner - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972052
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Can Subjective Well-Being Predict Unemployment Length?
Mavridis, Dimitris - 2017
This paper uses 16 waves of panel data from the British Household Panel Survey to evaluate the role of subjective well-being in determining labor market transitions. It confirms a previous finding in the literature: individuals report a fall in their happiness when they lose a job, but they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976555
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Youth Well-Being in Brazil : An Index for Cross-Regional Comparisons
Dell'Aglio, Debora - 2016
This study constructs three indices to measure how well Brazil's young people are surviving their transition to adulthood. Youth development is difficult to quantify because of the multi-dimensionality of youth behavior. Most monitoring use individual indicators in specific sectors, making it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747785
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The Public/Private Wage Differential in the Land of Gross National Happiness
Schmillen, Achim D. - 2017
In Bhutan, the public sector is usually seen as the most desirable employer. This study asks if this can be attributed to public sector employees receiving higher wages than comparable private sector workers. To answer the question, the study combines an Oaxaca-type decomposition of wage...
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Capital Will Not Become More Expensive as the World Ages
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2017
Aging of populations and convergence between developed and developing countries in per capita incomes are shaping the evolution of saving, investment, capital flows, and, in particular, the cost of capital. When considering these trends, the existing literature argues for either continued, low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972936
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Turkey's Evolving Trade Integration into Pan-European Markets
Ng, Francis - 2016
This is an empirical paper seeking to identify the mode of Turkey's integration into global markets in general, and pan … observations. First, thanks to steady expansion of trade in goods and services since the mid-1980s, Turkey has become highly … integrated into the world economy. Second, Turkey's export performance in 1996-2004 in EU markets bears strong similarities to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748137
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International Migration and Household Well-Being : Evidence from Uzbekistan
Seitz, William Hutchins - 2019
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865469
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The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration : Evidence from a Lottery
Gibson, John - 2017
the migrants? immediate family, who have substantially higher consumption, durable asset ownership, savings, and dietary …
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