As their environment changes, migrants constitute an interesting group to study the effect of relative income on subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Using a novel dataset, we find that the well-being of migrants depends on several...

This paper focuses on two main issues which are crucial for improving on the analysis of multidimensional inequality: the effect of both the dispersion of well-being attributes across individuals and the interaction among attributes on the measurement of multidimensional well-being. To approach...

The paper offers an analysis of how to operationalize the development goal of promoting well-being, and provides an exemplar. It focuses on one element of a comprehensive methodology to operationalize empirical research into the social and cultural construction of well-being in developing...

Последствия кризиса, не смотря на его глобальный характер, носят индивидуальный характер для каждой страны и всех секторов ее экономики, в зависимости от уровня...

Esta investigación construye un índice sobre el bienestar de los hogares, para seleccionar hogares en situación de pobreza, en los distintos subsidios que otorga el Estado en sus programas sociales. El índice estratifica entre los hogares con bajo nivel de bienestar según grado de...