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How has the crisis of 2008 - 2009 affected subjective well-being?
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2011
Results of life satisfaction regressions for more than 91,000 individuals are used to investigate how the macroeconomic crisis of 2008-2009 has affected subjective well-being (SWB) in 30 OECD countries. In a number of countries, the effect of the crisis on a representative person's SWB is of a...
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Comparative economic performance and institutional change in OECD countries : evidence from subjective well-being data
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2011
national income growth. The relationships found are used to construct an index of national economic performance in terms of SWB …
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How Has the Crisis of 2008-2009 Affected Subjective Well-Being? Evidence from 25 OECD Countries
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2015
rates of GDP growth, unemployment and inflation during the macroeconomic crisis of 2008-2009 have affected subjective well …
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How has the crisis of 2008-09 affected subjective well-being? : evidence from 25 OECD countries
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - In: Bulletin of economic research 68 (2016) 1, pp. 34-54
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Measuring economic well-being and sustainability : a practical agenda for the present and the future
Ven, Peter J. van de - In: Eurostat review on national accounts and macroeconomic … (2019) 1, pp. 7-41
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely used indicator from the system of national accounts. Although often interpreted as an indicator for (economic) well-being, it first and foremost monitors economic activity, and falls short of reflecting broader measures which try to capture...
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The conflictive relationship between satisfaction and income
Lora, Eduardo (contributor);  … - 2008
countries), raising doubts regarding the well-known Easterlin Paradox, a new paradox arises: "unhappy growth", where faster … growth rates are accompanied by lower levels of satisfaction. The losses of satisfaction associated with growth are more … social populism. -- Income ; Quality of Life ; GDP ; Growth ; Latin America …
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Institutional Change and Macroeconomic Performance in OECD Countries : Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data
Welsch, Heinz - 2015
more than 91,000 individuals in these countries to assess the well-being effects of national income growth, unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010976
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Macroeconomics and Life Satisfaction : Revisiting the 'Misery Index'
Welsch, Heinz - 2008
relationship between macroeconomics and subjective well-being by including the growth rate and the long-term interest rate as … additional variables in life satisfaction regressions. The paper finds that people care about growth and employment on the one … hand and stability on the other, where stability may alternatively be captured by the inflation rate or the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773203
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The anatomy of Subjective Well-Being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2001
Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...
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Putting a price tag on security : subjective well-being and willingness-to-pay for crime reduction in Europe
Brenig, Mattheus; Proeger, Till - 2016
Using information on life satisfaction and crime from the European Social Survey, we apply the life satisfaction approach (LSA) to determine the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB), income, victimization experience, fear of crime and various regional crime rates across European...
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