Showing 1 - 10 of 8,350
Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, empirical findings clearly indicate that people are not indifferent to adverse living conditions when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348918
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011545130
personality and that deviations from that set point will tend to be short-lived, rendering them poor measures of the quality of … subjective well-being differ greatly among countries. Life satisfaction scores for immigrants to Canada from up to 100 source …, the average levels and distributions of life satisfaction scores among immigrants mimic those of other Canadians rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983665
personality and that deviations from that set point will tend to be short-lived, rendering them poor measures of the quality of … subjective well-being differ greatly among countries. Life satisfaction scores for immigrants to Canada from up to 100 source …, the average levels and distributions of life satisfaction scores among immigrants mimic those of other Canadians rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456078
Security -- Analyzing Youth Outlook and Satisfaction -- 5. Next Steps and General Recommendations -- About the Authors. …This report details the Initiative's findings, recommendations, and methodology used to construct the Global Youth … Wellbeing Index. It is the hope of the Initiative that policymakers, donors, and youth are able to use this tool as the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012689707
Societal progress is characterized primarily as an improvement in the distribution of wellbeing; however, a small set of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013457675
Answers to the Eurobarometer question on Life Satisfaction are used to explore the effects of macroeconomic performance … between 2004 and 2011. It is found that variations in national levels of life satisfaction can largely be accounted by a small … number of socio-economic indicators. Life satisfaction is lowest in poor, corrupt countries where income inequality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733107
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226747
Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the European Social Survey to analyze the effects of aggregate immigration flows on the subjective well-being of native-born populations in a panel of 26 countries between 2002 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786218
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416416