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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 …
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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 …
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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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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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Does capitalism disfavor women? : evidence from life satisfaction
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2023
There is widespread concern, especially in certain feminist circles, that a market-oriented economic system, or capitalism, disfavors women. This could take many forms, such as lower wages for the same type of work, reduced career opportunities, disparities in ownership and the upholding of...
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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...
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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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Measuring progress
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
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...
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Home sweet home? : macroeconomic conditions in home countries and the well-being of migrants
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally … the degree of assimilation in Germany, which is consistent with a switch of migrants' reference point from home countries …
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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
conventionally measured through GDP per capita, "social prosperity" can be measured through our solidarity and agency indexes …
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