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What aspects of society affect the quality of life of a minority? : global evidence from the new Gay Happiness Index
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Nilsson, Therese - 2015
-country dataset covering 110 countries, the Gay Happiness Index. It covers how gays perceive public opinion about them, how they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410468
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
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 … impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …
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Financial Assessments and Investigation of Indicators of Financial Well-Being in an Emerging Market
Kiymaz, Halil - 2017
This study investigates the financial self-assessments and households' well-being using a national survey of 2,567 households in Turkey. We use Maslow's hierarchy of needs framework through households' views for their ability to meet current living expenses in the short-term as well as their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948564
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Gender differences in life satisfaction and social participation
Humpert, Stephan - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 3, pp. 123-142
The paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, marginal effects of binary probit estimations on life satisfaction are presented. Strong gender differences are observable. While sport, welfare or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010346726
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What Aspects of Society Affect the Quality of Life of a Minority? Global Evidence from the New Gay Happiness Index
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Nilsson, Therese - 2021
-country dataset covering 110 countries, the Gay Happiness Index. It covers how gays perceive public opinion about them, how they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220484
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Productivity, equity, and sustainability : a trilemma for contemporary human development?
Tassinari, Mattia - In: International review of applied economics 37 (2023) 5, pp. 575-606
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Freie Berufe - hat die Ungleichheit und Polarisierung von Einkommen und Zeit zugenommen?
Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2016
In dieser Studie wird die Ungleichheit und Polarisierung der Einkommen in Deutschland in den letzten 30 Jahren untersucht. Neben der reinen eindimensionalen Einkommensbetrachtung wird dafür auch erstmals die Entwicklung der multidimensionalen Ungleichheit und Polarisierung von Einkommen und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011564605
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India Protection Index : An Objective Measurement of the Economic and Social Well-Being of the Indian Population
Shukla, Rajesh - 2019
The success and failure of any democratic government is gauged in terms of how effectively it has fulfilled its constitutional obligation of enhancing social and economic well-being, particularly the common man. While developed economies use a set of indices to measure well-being, a systematic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897029
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Non-Parametric Preprocessing for the Estimation of Equivalence Scales
Dudel, Christian - 2014
Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric model is estimated, observations are selected in such a way that the resulting subset of data can be assumed to be sufficiently homogeneous with respect to the specific research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040004
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Using personal car register for measuring economic inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy : evidence for Latvia
Dombrovsky, Vyacheslav; Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič - 2011
We suggest to use information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars. Our main finding is that the extent of household...
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