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Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …
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Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169722
This study provides evidence on the trends and drivers of inequality in Vietnam using Vietnam Household Living Standard … Surveys. We find that inequality, regardless of the choice of welfare indicators and inequality measurements, has been stable … in Vietnam. Inequality in income or expenditure is remarkably lower than inequality in assets. In 2016, the Gini …
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multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …
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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...
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and the alarming inequality in China have made relative deprivation more and more intense for the Chinese population. This …
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This study investigates the determinants of life satisfaction among the oldest-old (i.e. individuals aged 80 or over) in China. We use the 2011/2012 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey data (n = 6530) for this paper. Logistic regression is used to analyse the effects of...
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This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...
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The hypothesis tested in this paper is whether the increasing inequality in recent years has had a significant impact …
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of happiness inequality. Using a decomposition methodology based on RIF regression, we analyse the increase in happiness … inequality observed in Germany between 1992 and 2007, using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) database, deriving the … following findings. First, trends in happiness inequality are mainly driven by composition effects, while coefficient effects …
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