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Were Covid and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which has been rising …
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'Havin' Money's Not Everything, Not Havin' It Is' : The Importance of Financial Satisfaction for Life Satisfaction in Financially Stressed Households
Brzozowski, Matthew - 2017
This paper explores the importance of financial satisfaction for overall life satisfaction in households whose … financial well-being overwhelmingly conditions their overall sense of life satisfaction. We consider as well the potential for … financial stress to moderate the relationship between income and life satisfaction but find only a modest effect and then only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941440
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The impact of the Great Recession on well-being across Europe ten years on : a cluster analysis
Angelini, Elisabetta Croci; Farina, Francesco; Sorana, … - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 5, pp. 1-17
To evaluate variations in the well-being dimensions of European citizens, we rely upon Principal Component Analysis methodology, whereby a large set of interrelated indicators are reduced to a small number of aggregate synthetic variables. We find that the 2008 crisis impinged differently on the...
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The Consumption Response to Extended Unemployment Benefits in the Great Recession
McKee, Graham - 2015
The Great Recession and the years that followed witnessed a dramatic expansion in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits available to unemployed workers in the United States. An important motivation for this policy was to stimulate demand by transferring funds to households that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019377
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Welfare Impact of the Global Economic Crisis of 2008-2009 on Turkish Households : Evidence from a Specialized Monitoring Survey in 7 Provinces
Aran, Meltem A. - 2013
This paper looks at how the macro shock from the 2008 financial crisis has translated into income and welfare shocks in the form of reduced earnings and consumption at the household level in Turkey. Using a specialized household level Welfare Monitoring Survey implemented in May-June 2009 in 7...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014156674
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Household Heterogeneity in the Euro Area Since the Onset of the Great Recession
Ampudia, Miguel - 2014
We extend household-level data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey using aggregate series and micro-simulations to investigate heterogeneity in the euro area. We quantify shocks to wealth, income and financial pressure faced by various categories of households since the onset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051171
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Impact of government quality on post-COVID subjective well-being in Pakistan : the mediating role of financial stress
Danish, Muhammad Hassan; Ashfaq, Muhammad; Joiya, … - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 13 (2024) 1, pp. 48-66
satisfaction with the government's role in fighting the pandemic. Regression analyses confirmed that least economic stress, good … happiness and life satisfaction. Moreover, a significant relationship exists between the mediator (financial stress) and SWB …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015047560
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Health and Well-Being in the Crisis
Askitas, Nikos - 2011
The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127723
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The economic and social determinants of migrants' well-being during the global financial crisis
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara - 2018
This paper investigates the economic and social determinants affecting the well-being of temporary migrants before, during and after the financial crisis. Exploiting unique panel data which cover migration spells from Tajikistan between 2001 and 2011, we find that migrants earn less but stay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785812
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The ability of selected European countries to face the impending economic crisis caused by COVID-19 in the context of the global economic crisis of 2008
Oravský, Róbert; Tóth, Peter; Bánociová, Anna - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 8/179, pp. 1-16
This paper is devoted to the ability of selected European countries to face the potential economic crisis caused by COVID-19. Just as other pandemics in the past (e.g., SARS, Spanish influenza, etc.) have had negative economic effects on countries, the current COVID-19 pandemic is causing the...
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