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Growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda : a broad perspective
Verpoorten, Marijke - 2014
This study focuses on growth, poverty and inequality in Rwanda. We take a broad perspective, in two respects. First, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418141
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Chapter 3. Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality
Aaberge, Rolf; Brandolini, Andrea - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 141-216). 2015
This chapter examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. It first … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The chapter also provides a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025348
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Time, income and subjective wellbeing - 20 years of interdependent multidimensional polarization in Germany
Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2021
poverty and affluence poles and regimes, for fulltime selfemployed, employees and subsequently for further socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703081
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Time, income and subjective wellbeing - 20 years of interdependent multidimensional polarization in Germany
Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2021
poverty and affluence poles and regimes, for fulltime selfemployed, employees and subsequently for further socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703698
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Is inequality in subjective well-being meritocratic? : Danish evidence from linked survey and administrative data
Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Olufsen, Isabel Skak - 2022
This paper decomposes inequality in subjective well-being into inequality due to socioeconomic background (SEB) and … meritocratic inequality due to differences in individual merits such as school performance. We measure the meritocratic share of … outcomes are not yet visible. At age 18-19, about 40 percent of the inequality in well-being is meritocratic. The role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361479
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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178514
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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
poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430756
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Walls of glass : measuring deprivation in social participation
Suppa, Nicolai - 2018
considerations, axiomatic research on poverty and deprivation, and previous empirical research on social exclusion and subjective … deprivation and income poverty. Moreover, regression techniques reveal deprivation in social participation to reduce life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011952499
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Climbing up ladders and sliding down snakes : an empirical assessment of the effect of social mobility on subjective wellbeing
Dolan, Paul; Lordan, Grace - 2019
We examine how intergenerational mobility affects subjective wellbeing (SWB) using data from the British Cohort Study. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059641
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Economic growth evens-out happiness : evidence from six surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252825