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Der Übergang zur Marktwirtschaft erfolgte in Ostdeutschland im Unterschied zu anderen osteuropäischen Staaten unter dem Primat der sozialpolitischen Angleichung der Lebensbedingungen an das höhere Wohlstandsniveau der westlichen Bundesländer. Bezüglich der Wohlstandsentwicklung wie auch der...
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Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...
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Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312724
effect. These factors have largely been shown to matter for the well-being of people in general as well, which interestingly …
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status. Finally, comparing indicators of objective and subjective well-being on a macro level indicates that using a standard …This paper analyses subjective economic well-being in several Eastern European countries from 1991 to 1995. Economic … well-being explains a significant part of the variation in overall life satisfaction of Eastern Europeans. In an ordered …
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Using data from the OECD Regional Well-Being Index - a set of quality-of-life indicators measured at the sub …-national level, we construct a set of composite well-being indices. We analyse the extent to which the choice of five alternative … aggregation methods affects the well-being ranking of regions. We find that regional inequality in these composite measures is …
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We analyse the results of experiments on aspects of the design of questionnaire and interview mode in the 2009 wave of the new UK Understanding Society panel survey. The randomised experiments relate to job- and life-satisfaction questions and vary the labeling of response scales, the mode of...
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We analyse the results of experiments on questionnaire design and interview mode in the first four waves (2008-11) of the UK Understanding Society Innovation Panel survey. The randomised experiments relate to job, health, income, leisure and overall life-satisfaction questions and vary the...
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those associated with income and material wellbeing more generally. The sizes of these impacts are considerably larger than …
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poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To …
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