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Capabilities and choices : do they make Sen'se for understanding objective and subjective well-being?
Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Headey, Bruce - 2011
In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....
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Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States
Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 5, pp. 1-30
Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on...
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Relative income distribution in six European countries : market and disposable income
Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015
The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The outcome of this process entails relevant information about...
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The application of the capability approach to high-income OECD countries : a preliminary survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - 2011
The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...
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Gender differences in mental well-being : a decomposition analysis
Madden, David - 2008
The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being. A consistent pattern across countries is that women report lower levels of mental well-being, as measured by the GHQ. This paper applies decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to...
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016
from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most … negatively and independently from the effect of life expectancy. There is no correlation with GDP. Econometric analysis of the …
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Testing cointegration between health care expenditure and GDP in Japan with the presence of a regime shift
Tamakoshi, T.; Hamori, Shigeyuki - In: Applied economics letters 23 (2016) 1/3, pp. 151-155
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2015
go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective … wellbeing. An increase of 1% life expectancy is equivalent to more than 5% increase in yearly GDP. One year of internal conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296064
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Volatility in international stock markets : an empirical study during COVID-19
Chaudhary, Rashmi; Bakhshi, Priti; Gupta, Hemendra - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 9/208, pp. 1-17
countries based on GDP using a widely applied econometric model-generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH …
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An examination of the dynamics of happiness using vector autoregressions
Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - 2009
We use a panel vector autoregressions model to examine the coevolution of changes in happiness and changes in income, health, marital status as well as employment status for the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data set. This technique allows us to simultaneously analyze the impact of the...
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