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Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons with Discrete Indicators of Well-Being

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 2014

This paper provides a method to make robust multidimensional poverty comparisons when one or more of the dimensions of well-being or deprivation is discrete. Sampling distributions for the statistics used in these poverty comparisons are provided. Several examples show that the methods are both...

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Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons With Discrete Indicators of Well-Being

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 2014

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Determinants of the wage share : a cross-country comparison using sectoral data

Guschanski, Alexander; Onaran, Özlem - In: CESifo forum : a quarterly journal on European issues 19 (2018) 2, pp. 44-54

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Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States

Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 5, pp. 1-30

Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on...

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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021

The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic growth, incomes generally are rising, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what...

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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?

Easterlin, Richard A. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 209 (2023), pp. 200-204

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Inequality comparisons with ordinal data

Jenkins, Stephen - 2019

Non-intersection of appropriately-defined Generalized Lorenz (GL) curves is equivalent to a unanimous ranking of distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL curve areas. Comparisons of life satisfaction...

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Comparative analysis of the level of satisfaction with the financial situation in Romania and EU countries

Necula, Diana Maria - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 224-233). 2023

countries of the European Union. The work analyzed indicators that express the material well-being of a society such as: GDP and … among the last places in terms of GDP per capita or median income, and despite this the population of our country has an … that have a higher median income or GDP. …

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Innovation and Government Payments in the Italian Digital Agenda

Arpaia, Carlo Maria - 2013

We examine the main items on the European and the Italian Digital Agenda and the rules of the Digital Administration Code, in particular on-line payments. We then highlight the part played by the Bank of Italy in overall administrative modernization through its role as provider of the State...

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Comparing Inequality Aversion Across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Bargain, Olivier - 2013

We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when controlling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...

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