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Life Satisfaction, Social Capital and the Bonding-Bridging Nexus
Pugno, Maurizio; Verme, Paolo - Dipartimento di Economia e Giurisprudenzia, Facoltà di … - 2011
The paper investigates the relation between social capital and life satisfaction focusing on the distinction between bonding and bridging as introduced by Putnam (2000). Using the latest version of the combined World and European Values Surveys, we first address the question of measurement of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644945
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Relative Deprivation with Imperfect Information
Verme, Paolo; Izem, Rima - In: Economics Bulletin 4 (2008) 7, pp. 1-9
The paper proposes an alternative index of relative deprivation which allows for selection of the reference group and imperfect information, two central elements of modern theories of social justice. An application to real data and a simulation on artificial data illustrate the use and some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010629515
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Two Classes of Generalized Deprivation Indexes
Verme, Paolo - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 3, pp. 2021-2029
The paper uses two particular formulations of the Gini index to derive two different relative deprivation measures. We then generalize the formulation of these measures following Donaldson and Weymark (1980) and Berrebi and Silber (1985) and show how these generalizations can be considered as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149964
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Two classes of generalized deprivation indexes
Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
The paper uses two particular formulations of the Gini index to derive two different relative deprivation measures. We then generalize the formulation of these measures following Donaldson and Weymark (1980) and Berrebi and Silber (1985) and show how these generalizations can be considered as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193073
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Tracking the Sustainable Development Goals: Emerging Measurement Challenges and Further Reflections
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Fu, Haishan; Serajuddin, Umar - 2019
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recently adopted by the United Nations represent an important step to identify shared global goals for development over the next two decades. Yet, the stated goals are not as straightforward and easy to interpret as they appear on the surface. Review of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984706
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Relative deprivation in the labor market
Verme, Paolo - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
Why do different population groups (e.g. rural vs. urban, youth vs. elderly and men vs. women) experience the same objective labor status differently? One hypothesis is that people are more concerned with relative deprivation than objective deprivation and they value their own status relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745332
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Do Gender, Child, and Parent Characteristics Contribute to Intergenerational Subjective Well-being Mobility? Evidence from Russia during 1994-2019
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022
Measuring the intergenerational mobility of welfare provides key inputs for policies, but very few studies examine intergenerational mobility of subjective well-being (SWB), particularly in a poorer, transitional country context. We make new contributions by analyzing rich panel SWB data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013189096
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Happiness, Deprivation and the Alter Ego
Verme, Paolo - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2009
The paper focuses on satisfaction with income and proposes a utility model built on two value systems, the `Ego' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to one own past and future income - and the `Alter' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526992
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The poverty reduction capacity of private and public transfers in transition
Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
The transitional economies of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth and poverty … households. The paper assesses the relative importance of these transfers for welfare and poverty in Moldova, the poorest country … effective in improving welfare and reducing poverty whereas social assistance transfers have little or no effect. Social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008495152
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Relative Deprivation with Imperfect Information
Verme, Paolo; Izem, Rima - In: Economics Bulletin 4 (2008) 7, pp. 1-9
The paper proposes an alternative index of relative deprivation which allows for selection of the reference group and imperfect information, two central elements of modern theories of social justice. An application to real data and a simulation on artificial data illustrate the use and some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416881