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Economic inequality and subjective well-being across the world
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2018
We here use repeated cross-section data from the Afrobarometer, Asianbarometer Latinobarometer, and Eurobarometer to analyse the variables that are correlated with both current and future evaluations of standards of living. These are related not only to an individual's own economic resources but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947084
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Inequality and poverty in Greece : changes in times of crisis
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros; … - 2017
The Greek crisis was the deepest and longest ever recorded in an OECD country in the postwar period. Output declined by over a quarter and disposable income by more than 40%, while the unemployment rate exceeded 27%. The paper explores the effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119583
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Inequality and poverty in Greece : changes in times of crisis
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros; … - 2017
The Greek crisis was the deepest and longest ever recorded in an OECD country in the postwar period. Output declined by over a quarter and disposable income by more than 40%, while the unemployment rate exceeded 27%. The paper explores the effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732003
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Inequality, Poverty and Social Welfare in Greece : Distributional Effects of Austerity
Mitrakos, Theodore - 2022
This paper presents the recent trends and the characteristics of inequality, poverty and living conditions in Greece, emphasising the distributional effects of the austerity measures adopted during the current economic crisis. Moreover, the decomposition analysis of the study examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079034
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Using efficiency analysis to measure individual well-being with an illustration for Catalonia
Ramos Morilla, Xavier (contributor) - 2005
This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003095436
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Income Satisfaction and Deprivation in Spain
Labeaga Azcona, J. Maria - 2007
The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these … being relative deprivation, and the second is to measure this relative deprivation, in both monetary and satisfaction terms … satisfaction measures depend on relative deprivation, as well as on other determinants. As for the second objective, we first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777095
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Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-Being with an Illustration for Catalonia
Ramos, Xavier - 2021
This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318262
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Parental child care time, income, and subjective well-being : a multidimensional polarization approach for Germany
Merz, Joachim; Peters, Normen - 2019
Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is time which enables and restricts individual activities and is a further brick to a more comprehensive picture of individual well-being. In our study we focus on a prominent part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011975532
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Parental child care time, income and subjective well-being : a multidimensional polarization approach for Germany
Merz, Joachim; Peters, Normen - 2019
Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is time which enables and restricts individual activities and is a further brick to a more comprehensive picture of individual well-being. In our study we focus on a prominent part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978752
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Poverty, Inequalities and the Perceptions on Distributive Justice
Iqbal, Munawar - 2018
Distributive justice may mean different things to various schools of thought. Active discussions on poverty and inequality are among economic debates which have been going on for a long time. However, during the last fifty years, they have received a lot more attention by both academicians and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918438