Gegenstand der Studie ist die Quantifizierung des gleichsam automatischen Einflusses der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung auf einzelne Budgetkomponenten und das Budget insgesamt, um den Effekt einer hypothetischen Änderung in der Entwicklung des Outputs auf das Budget und das Defizit abzuschätzen...

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...

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...

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...

Surveys are a widely used tool to answer socio-economic research question across disciplines. However, data collection can face certain problems such as nonresponding units. For household and population surveys, a large body of literature about the effects of nonresponse exist but only less is...

Im vorliegenden Band werden Beiträge aus einem Projekt zur Konjunkturthematik in China präsentiert. Er ist in drei Teile gegliedert. Ein erster Teil befasst sich mit den Besonderheiten Chinas bezüglich zyklischer Entwicklungen, Teil zwei präsentiert den Kenntnisstand zu Konjunkturtest- und...