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Influence of Freedom of Choice on Happiness

Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Summers, Christopher R.; … - 2022

studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person’s happiness …. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the freedom of choice to fully develop a model of happiness. We name those …

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Social capital and innovation - can social trust explain the technological innovation of the high-performing East Asian eonomies?

Cho, Seo-Young - 2018

The economic success and innovative outcomes of the high performing East Asian countries, albeit often characterized as low-trust societies, suggests reexamination of the presumed positive relationship between social trust and innovation. Multi-level analyses conducted in this paper reveal that...

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Labor market institutions : curse or blessing?

Ochsen, Carsten; Welsch, Heinz - 2006

satisfaction of European citizens is affected by employment protection and the level and duration of unemployment benefit payments …-benefit analysis ; life satisfaction ; happiness …

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Cumulative causation at work : intergenerational transfers and social capital in a spatially varied economy

Gentili, Andrea; Ferretti, Luca - 2013

This paper models the dynamic of migration with a particular focus on the cumulative process that causes a variation in the distribution of income in sending communities and therefore a variation in the distribution of skills across different cohorts. The model provides a theoretical framework...

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Does legal freedom satisfy?

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2022

the satisfaction people express with their freedom of choice. Using a sample of 133 countries over the period 2008 … related to satisfaction with freedom above and below a threshold level. Freedom of assembly is more positive for satisfaction … institutions are complementary with culture, income and the political system in generating satisfaction with freedom. …

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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013

China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...

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