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A methodology approach to delineate functional economic market areas: With an iterative three-step spatial clustering procedure

Oberst, Christian A. - 2011

This paper proposes an iterative three-step spatial clustering procedure to define Functional Economic Market Areas (FEMAs) with an evolutionary computational approach using flow data on economic linkages. FEMAs are needed as basic observation units in disaggregated economic data analysis, since...

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Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification: Additional insights on the pattern of convergence

Petrunyk, Inna; Pfeifer, Christian - 2015

The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...

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Youth unemployment in Greece: Measuring the challenge

Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 1, pp. 1-25

A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper analyses various dimensions of this challenge. We argue that though the conventional definition of "youth" is the 16-24 age group, there is a strong case for considering 25 to...

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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research

van Praag, Bernard M.S. - 2010

consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

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Dissatisfied with life or with being interviewed? Happiness and motivation to participate in a survey

Chadi, Adrian - 2014

Information on the number of interviewer contacts allows insights into how people's responses to questions on happiness … happiness. Analyses of responses by future non-respondents substantiate this finding and shed light on a key question for …

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Dissatisfied with life or with being interviewed? Happiness and motivation to participate in a survey

Chadi, Adrian - 2014

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Life Satisfaction and Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification

Easterlin, Richard A.; Zimmermann, Anke C. - 2008

Economic disruption in East Germany at the time of unification resulted in a noticeable drop in life satisfaction. By the late 1990s East Germany's life satisfaction had recovered to about its 1990 level, and its shortfall relative to West Germany was slightly less than that before unification....

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How persistent is life satisfaction? Evidence from European immigration

Berggren, Niclas; Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian; … - 2018

This paper asks to what extent life satisfaction among immigrants remains similar to that in their country of origin and to what extent it adapts to that in their country of residence. We employ data from 29,000 immigrants in the European Social Survey to estimate the relative importance of...

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Comparing consumption: a curse or a blessing?

Strulik, Holger - 2008

Does it make us unhappier when we compare our current consumption with that of the Joneses or our own past achievements? This paper tries an answer without recurring on interpersonal utility comparisons. It calibrates an economy under three different assumptions, non-comparing utility, and...

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The adaptation problem, evolution and normative economics

Qizilbash, Mozaffar - 2007

on happiness, particularly its policy conclusions. It also poses a problem for Ken Binmore's account of justice because …

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