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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532489
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998811
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024588
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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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What (if anything) do satisfaction scores tell us about the intertemporal change in living conditions?
Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes - 2010
This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent changes …-term impact on living conditions. The usefulness of satisfaction scores as an indicator of people's living conditions is discussed. …
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Are more equal societies happier? : subjective well-being, income inequality, and redistribution
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - 2013
Using four waves of the European Social Survey, we analyze the association of income inequality and redistribution with subjective well-being. Our results provide evidence that people in Europe are negatively affected by income inequality, while reduction of inequality has a positive effect on...
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Reduction of income inequality and subjective well-being in Europe
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - 2014
Using four waves of the European Social Survey (179,273 individuals from 29 countries) the authors analyze the association of reduction of income inequality (redistribution) with subjective wellbeing. Their results provide evidence that people in Europe are negatively affected by income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357364
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Day-care expansion and parental subjective well-being : evidence from Germany
Schober, Pia S.; Schmitt, Christian - 2013
with larger day-care growth mothers and fathers expressed greater satisfaction with the available child care. In West … Germany, the daycare expansion was positively associated with an increase in maternal satisfaction with family life, health … associations with some domains were similarly positive but reached statistical significance only for maternal satisfaction with …
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