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A multidimensional analysis of adaptation in a developing country context
Barr, Abigail; Clark, David - 2007
Econometric analyses of European datasets suggest that income aspirations increase with current income. This finding is consistent with the adaptation hypothesis –the notion that individual aspirations adjust to reflect personal circumstances and living conditions. We add to these existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441497
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Social Opportunities and Private Convenience of Choices at Farm Level: An Approach to the Links Between Farm Income and Sustainable GDP
Idda, Lorenzo; Sini, Maria Paola - 2006
This work proposes a method to identify and evaluate the links between the economic and environmental management of a farm, its income, and sustainable GDP. The approach is designed to link micro and macro economic aspects and is based on certain indicators, chosen from among those obtained from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446208
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Happiness in the Midst of Change: A Human Development Approach to Studying GNH in the Context of Economic Development
Levenson, Michael L.; Jennings, Patricia A.; D'Mello, … - 2004
Contemporary theories of economic development have concentrated on socioeconomic and epidemiological indices of development to the exclusion of issues of psychological and spiritual development. Yet, economic development without attention to individual human development may produce increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468660
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Fairly satisfied : economic equality, wealth and satisfaction
O'Connell, Michael F. - 2004
Research appears to demonstrate that economic variables are only marginally predictive of levels of social satisfaction. It was hypothesised that a greater association might be found between satisfaction and equality of income distribution rather than between satisfaction and size of income. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475682
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Managers' work-life balance and health: the case of UK managers
Worrall, Les; Cooper, Cary L. - 2007
The paper explores the effects of organisational change on UK managers' perceptions of their organisation and on their well-being. Cost reduction is the prime driver for change and has been implemented using delayering, redundancy, downsizing and off-shoring often supported by culture change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458985
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Is the Genuine Progress Indicator really genuine? Considering well-being impacts of exports and imports
Clarke, Matthew - 2007
The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) is estimated as if nations operate within a closed economy. Therefore, in terms of coverage, the GPI is most analogous to Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Indeed, within the relevant literature, these two indicators are most often contrasted. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483739
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Inequality and psychological well-being in times of COVID-19: evidence from Spain
Martínez-Bravo, Mónica; Sanz Alonso, Carlos
Mediante dos nuevas encuestas online llevadas a cabo en mayo y noviembre de 2020, en este documento estudiamos las consecuencias de las primeras etapas de la pandemia de COVID-19 para los hogares españoles. Documentamos un efecto importante y negativo sobre los ingresos de los hogares. En mayo...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804612
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Using the National Information Infrastructure for social science, education, and informed decision making
Tonn, B.E. - 2008
used to address four major social concerns: ensuring economic prosperity; health care; reducing crime and violence; and K …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435490
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Essays on crime and search frictions
Engelhardt, Bryan - 2008
a job and/or crime opportunity.Chapter 1 looks at how long it takes for released inmates to find a job, and when they … program. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and analyze … spell of criminals by two months reduces crime and recidivism by more than five percent.Chapter 2 incorporates crime into a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466027
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On the Interaction of Individual and Collective Crime
Friehe, Tim; Baumann, Florian - 2010
This paper shows that increasing the sanction on collective crime may increase its prevalence. This situation arises … between detection probabilities where detection of an individual crime may result in the uncovering of the collective crime as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471594