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Tasting freedom: Happiness, religion and economictransition

Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect allequally. This paper uses Hungarian survey data … to study the impact ofreligion and economic transition on happiness. Religious involvementcontributes positively to … individuals’ self-reported well-being.Controlling for personal characteristics of the respondents, money is aless important source …

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Experienced versus Decision Utility of Income: Relative or Absolute Happiness

Vendrik, Maarten; Hirata, Johannes - 2003

This paper investigates relative or absolute happiness. …

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Stress That Doesn´t Pay : The Commuting Paradox

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

People spend more and more time commuting and often find it a burden. According to economics, the burden of commuting …

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Zufriedenheit von Nutzerinnen und Nutzern mit ambulanten Pflegedienstleistungen - Forschungsbericht

Bendel, Klaus - 2000

Vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie zufrieden pflegebedürftige Menschen, die häusliche Pflege in Ansprung nehmen, mit den Leistungen ihrer Pflegedienstes sind.

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Satisfaction and Expectations: Attitudes to publicservices in deprived areas

Duffy, Bobby - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

Based on outcomes for residents and qualitative studies, it is widelythought that public services meet the needs of residents less well indeprived areas, and that this is due to both the demands placed onservices being greater and the services themselves being of a lowerquality. This paper looks...

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Social Welfare Systems in East Asia:A Comparative Analysis Including Private Welfare

Jacobs, Didier - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five EastAsian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong andSingapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as incomedistribution aspects, based on both aggregate data and a programme-byprogrammereview of their...

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Talking to Families in East London

Mumford, Katharine - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

Katharine Mumford reports on her first round of interviews with 100 familiesliving in two East London neighbourhoods. CASE’s qualitative, longitudinalstudy in low income areas seeks to understand area change from theperspective of families, and to uncover the significance of area conditions...

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Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2010

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness.Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … where the economic research on happiness stands and of threedirections it might develop. First, it offers new ways for … gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affectpublic policy. …

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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois : … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2009

individuals’ well-being. However, how do individuals valuethe environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach …

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Das Glück und Unglück von Studierendenaus Ost- und Westdeutschland:Ergebnisse einer Befragung in Ilmenau, Bochumund Hamburg

Dewenter, Ralf; Haucap, Justus; Kuchinke, Björn - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre <Ilmenau> - 2009

West zu geben,wobei häufig auch Studierende im Fokus der Forschung stehen. Die Literatur und diedamit verbundenen …

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