Seit einigen Jahren veröffentlicht der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB) den Index "Gute Arbeit", der die Qualität der Arbeit aus Sicht der Beschäftigten messen soll. Der Index vermittelt ein Bild "mittelmäßiger Arbeit" in Deutschland, weil er die Messlatte für das Prädikat "gute Arbeit"...

A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well- being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...

A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well-being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...

Several devices in designing composite indicators for policy monitoring and benchmarking are discussed: weighting and scaling of variables, hierarchical organization, handling rank-based variables, relief tables, survey simulation techniques which combine normative and empirical data. Some...