satisfaction of European citizens is affected by employment protection and the level and duration of unemployment benefit payments …-benefit analysis ; life satisfaction ; happiness …

institutional context variables, i.e. trust and the perception of freedom, have higher correlations with the two SWB variables used … estimates reconfirm the importance of trust and, in particular, of the perception of freedom. These variables explain more of …

This paper reexamines key results from the measurement of opportunity freedom , or the extent to which a set of options … the effective freedom relation—and their variations are considered within a common axiomatic framework. Special attention … is given to representations of freedom rankings, with the goal of providing practical approaches for measuring …

measure is not based on pivotality, but rather on a measure of freedom of choice in individual decisions. Indeed, I use the …