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Relative deprivation and individual well-being
Chen, Xi - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) April, pp. 1-10
poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
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The Challenges of Incorporating Empowerment into the HDI: Some Lessons from Happiness Economics and Quality of Life Research
Graham, Carol - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
macroeconomic conditions. Sen’s capabilities approach to poverty, which underlies the HDI, highlights the lack of capacity of the …
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Building sustainability through greater happiness
Bartolini, Stefano - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2014
The current unsustainable growth of the world economy is largely a consequence of the crisis of social capital experienced by much of the world's population. Declining social capital leads the economies to excessive growth, because people seek economic affluence as compensation for the emotional...
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Measuring Human Well-being: Key Findings and Policy Lessons
Clark, David; McGillivray, Mark - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007
This Policy Brief is an outcome of the UNU-WIDER research project 'Social Development Indicators'. The overall aim of the project was to provide insights into how human well-being might be better conceptualized and, in particular, measured, by reviewing various concepts and measures and then...
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A Microsimulation of the Impact of Tax Reforms on Child Poverty: the Case of Italy
Sandu, Roxana - European Economic Studies, College of Europe - 2014
Microsimulation models have been used in order to find efficient counteractive instruments to poverty. The objective of … this paper is to analyse the impact of fiscal policy on poverty, insisting on child poverty rates. Empirical analysis … suggests that in fighting poverty, a mix of policies need to be in place, fiscal reforms increasing tax allowances such as …
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Does the Risk of Poverty Reduce Happiness?
Caria, Stefano A.; Falco, Paolo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2014
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Re-emphasizing sustainable development — The concept of ‘Evolutionability’
Keiner, Marco - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 6 (2005) 4, pp. 379-392
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National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich nations' well-being; Great Britain and the US enter further down; France and Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for...
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Towards a sustainable well-being
Tanasescu, Cristina Roxana; Oprean, Camelia - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research 5 (2013) 1, pp. 170-178
Given the need of a new economic paradigm for the achievement of a world of sustainable wellbeing, this paper presents the main findings from the literature on sustainable well-being. We try to identify a few approaches of measurement, highlighting strengths and weaknesses. We analyzed Romania's...
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Competition and Well-Being
Brandts, Jordi; Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
We study the effects of competition in a context in which people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that in such an environment the very presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any payoff gains for the short side of the market. We also find that...
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