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Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...
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Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312724
effect. These factors have largely been shown to matter for the well-being of people in general as well, which interestingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410468
status. Finally, comparing indicators of objective and subjective well-being on a macro level indicates that using a standard …This paper analyses subjective economic well-being in several Eastern European countries from 1991 to 1995. Economic … well-being explains a significant part of the variation in overall life satisfaction of Eastern Europeans. In an ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494190
Using data from the OECD Regional Well-Being Index - a set of quality-of-life indicators measured at the sub …-national level, we construct a set of composite well-being indices. We analyse the extent to which the choice of five alternative … aggregation methods affects the well-being ranking of regions. We find that regional inequality in these composite measures is …
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We analyse the results of experiments on questionnaire design and interview mode in the first four waves (2008-11) of the UK Understanding Society Innovation Panel survey. The randomised experiments relate to job, health, income, leisure and overall life-satisfaction questions and vary the...
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poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To …
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effects of violent crime victimisation on diverse measures of wellbeing. These results are then subsequently used to calculate … the monetary compensation required to offset the wellbeing losses. Estimates allowing for the endogeneity of income … are larger if the wellbeing losses of female family members are considered, and are larger for females if the perpetrator …
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indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to … translate economic growth into non-monetary wellbeing. We take into consideration that there is a feedback effect from monetary … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish …
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to investigate the interplay of work identity and hours of work in determining subjective wellbeing (job satisfaction … work identity is associated with higher wellbeing on most measures. Working long hours is associated with lower wellbeing … and working part-time is associated with higher wellbeing, but for men hours mainly affect their job-related anxiety and …
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