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Globalisierung und soziale Marktwirtschaft - Eine wirtschaftsethische Perspektive
Pies, Ingo - Universität <Halle, Saale> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2007
Dieser Artikel beleuchtet aus einer wirtschaftsethischen Perspektive, wie Globalisierung im öffentlichen Diskurs wahrgenommen wird und wie sie stattdessen wahrgenommen werden müsste, um die mit Globalisierung verbundenen Chancen und Risiken richtig einschätzen zu können. Die Hauptaussagen...
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at thesame time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work morequickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there isindeed such a puzzle. First, we...
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well …
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Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2010
Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the socialsciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness.Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeingis often taken as a proxy measure for...
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Understanding the relationship between parental income and multiple child outcomes: a decomposition analysis
Gregg, Paul; Propper, Carol; Washbrook, Elizabeth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
In this paper we explore the association between family income and children’s cognitive ability (IQ and school … performance), socio-emotional outcomes (self esteem, locus of control and behavioural problems) and physical health (risk of … characteristics and home environments of low income children in accounting for different outcomes. Using rich cohort data from the UK …
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Measuring Well-Being and Exclusion in Europe’sRegions
Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
dimensions of well-being: material wellbeing,health, education and participation in two spheres – productive and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695285
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Social Exclusion and Children:A European view for a US debate
Micklewright, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe butits application to children has seen relatively little discussion. What couldbe meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper.Among other things, I consider the choice of reference group, thegeographical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695289
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Developing a capability list: Final Recommendationsof the Equalities Review Steering Group onMeasurement
Vizard, Polly; Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
[...]This paper, and its companion, Definition of equality and framework formeasurement: Final Recommendations of the Equalities Review SteeringGroup on Measurement (CASEpaper 120) were prepared as backgroundpapers to assist in the development of the measurement framework for theEqualities...
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Definition of equality and framework formeasurement: Final Recommendations of theEqualities Review Steering Group on Measurement
Burchardt, Tania; Vizard, Polly - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
[...]This paper, and its companion, Developing a Capability List: FinalRecommendations of the Equalities Review Steering Group on Measurement(CASEpaper 121), were prepared as background papers to assist in thedevelopment of the measurement framework for the Equalities Review. Itdiscusses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354004
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Foundations for measuring equality: A discussion paperfor the Equalities Review
Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
The Equalities Review is an independent panel set up by the UK government in2005 to investigate the persistence of social inequalities and to makerecommendations for the development of a unified Commission for Equalityand Human Rights. This paper was originally written for the Review....
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