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A capabilities approach to housing and quality of life : the evidence from Germany

Coates, Dermot; Anand, Paul; Norris, Michelle - 2015

capabilities and activities associated with housing have a detectable impact on housing satisfaction, and whether housing … satisfaction contributes to overall life satisfaction. Our results indicate that housing satisfaction is indeed related to overall … life satisfaction and that a wide range of different kinds of variables appear to impact housing satisfaction itself. The …

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Labor union membership and life satisfaction in the United States

Flavin, Patrick; Shufeldt, Gregory - In: Labor studies journal : official journal of United … 41 (2016) 2, pp. 171-184

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Associations of childhood health and financial situation with quality of life after retirement : regional variation across Europe

Börnhorst, Claudia; Heger, Dörte; Mensen, Anne - 2019

Many studies have shown that childhood circumstances can have long term consequences that persist until old age. To better understand the transmission of early life circumstances, this paper analyses the effects of health and financial situation during childhood on quality of life after...

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Policy goals in the eyes of the public : preservation of the liberal democratic order remains most important

Giesselmann, Marco; Siegel, Nico A.; Spengler, Thorsten; … - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 9, pp. 97-108

More than just a few politicians and scientists see an imbalance in policy’s primary orientation toward economic goals, especially the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In view of scientific and public discourses on prosperity, this report analyzes how voting-eligible Germans, the electorate,...

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A happy way to grow old? : grandparent caregiving, quality of life and life satisfaction

Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi - 2019

study the effect of grandparents looking after grandchildren on quality of life and life satisfaction of grandparents. We … to grandfathers. The favorable effect on life satisfaction is primarily directly attributable to caring for grandchildren …

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Measuring progress

O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

Societal progress is characterized primarily as an improvement in the distribution of wellbeing; however, a small set of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select...

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