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Policy goals in the eyes of the public : preservation of the liberal democratic order remains most important
Giesselmann, Marco; Siegel, Nico A.; Spengler, Thorsten; … - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 9, pp. 97-108
, especially the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In view of scientific and public discourses on prosperity, this report analyzes how … government uses in its “Living Well in Germany” Report to describe quality of life. This report shows that the majority of German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613213
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Measuring well-being : W3 Indicators to complement GDP
Giesselmann, Marco; Hilmer, Richard; Siegel, Nico A.; … - 2013
Numerous people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that the gross domestic product (GDP) is an … relevance of various policy areas for different social groups. -- GDP ; GDP and beyond ; quality of life ; Germany ; TNS …, established a study commission (Enquete-Kommission) tasked with developing an alternative to the GDP for measuring growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009741394
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Measuring Well-Being : W3 Indicators to Complement GDP
Giesselmann, Marco - 2013
Numerous people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that the gross domestic product (GDP) is an …, established a study commission (Enquete-Kommission) tasked with developing an alternative to the GDP for measuring growth …, prosperity, and quality of life. This commission has now submitted a proposal: to supplement the GDP with nine additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081278
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Walls of glass : measuring deprivation in social participation
Suppa, Nicolai - 2018
This paper proposes a measure for deprivation in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of human well-being. Operationalisation and empirical implementation of the measure are conceptually guided by the capability approach. Essentially, the paper argues that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011952499
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Relative deprivation and individual well-being : low status and a feeling of relative deprivation are detrimental to health and happiness
Chen, Xi - 2015
People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce feelings of well-being. Relative deprivation reflects conditions of worsening relative poverty despite striking reductions in absolute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430756
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Poverty profiles and well-being : panel evidence from Germany
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2015 - This version: February 2015
panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493169
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Endogeneity in the relation between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction
Hajek, André - 2013
This publication concentrates on the complex interplay between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction. Main areas of life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational autonomy or employment status and also the mentioned life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209215
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The emotional timeline of unemployment : anticipation, reaction, and adaptation
Scheve, Christian von; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013
Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196016
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The emotional timeline of unemployment : anticipation, reaction, and adaption
Scheve, Christian von; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013
Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190179
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Unfairness at work : well-being and quits
D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Clark, Andrew E.; Barazzetta, Marta - 2018
We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. In six waves of German Socio-Economic Panel data, the extent to which own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798035