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Relational Goods and the Well-being of People Working in Italian Social Cooperatives
Nappo, Nunzia - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali (2010) 4, pp. 449-474
The paper investigates the role of relational goods in individual satisfaction with life. Individual data provided by the Italian Survey on Social Cooperatives (ICSI, 2007) are used in the econometric analysis, carried out on a sample of 4134 individuals working in Italian social cooperatives....
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A note on the relationship between television viewing and individual happiness
Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - 2009
claim that television viewing in general has a negative impact on individual happiness. Using a large cross- country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271181
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A note on the relationship between television viewing and individual happiness
Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
claim that television viewing in general has a negative impact on individual happiness. Using a large cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509229
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The Easterlin paradox and the decline of social capital: an integrated explanation
Pugno, Maurizio - Dipartimento di Economia e Giurisprudenzia, Facoltà di … - 2008
During the most recent decades people in industrialised countries have reported both a stagnant or even declining subjective well-being, as Easterlin (1974) originally observed, and deterioration in their social and family bonds, as Putnam (2000) has claimed. The paper proposes an integrated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690464
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Ekonomie štěstí: proč méně může být více / Economics and Happiness: Why Less Can Be More [available in Czech only]
Mlčoch, Lubomír - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2005
Berlin wall’s fall. Author provides a sketch of the empirical research of subjective happiness since T.Scitovsky´s „Joyless …-product of search for happiness of men – nothing more. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673609
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Cultural Participation, Relational Goods and Individual Subjective Well-Being: Some Empirical Evidence
Blessi, Giorgio Tavano; Grossi, Enzo; Sacco, Pier Luigi; … - In: Review of Economics & Finance 4 (2014) August, pp. 33-46
This paper focuses on the role of cultural participation as a source of individual subjective well-being in terms of the sociability orientation of different cultural activities. In previous works, we have found a strong association between subjective well-being and cultural participation. Here,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096965
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Happiness and health: two paradoxes
Borghesi, Simone; Vercelli, Alessandro - Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Finanza e Sviluppo … - 2007
-economic determinants of happiness and health. Although they have been pursued quite independently by different communities of researchers … happiness and health. In addition, we argue that the so-called “paradox of happiness”, extensively discussed in the first … research stream, has an empirical counterpart in the decoupling between self-reported happiness and health indexes: while life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704529
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And What About the Family Back Home? International Migration and Happiness
Borraz, Fernando; Pozo, Susan; Rossi, Máximo - 2008
examine the impact of migration on the happiness of the family left behind. We use the propensity score matching estimator to … take into account the endogeneity of migration. Our results indicate that migration reduces the happiness of those left … behind. We also find that the monetary inflows (remittances) that accompany migration do not increase happiness levels among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301430
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A Note on the High Stability of Happiness: The Minimal Effects of a Nuclear Catastrophe on Life Satisfaction
Berger, Eva M. - 2008
happiness? This paper will analyze the impact of a catastrophe, namely the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl, on life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600755
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A note on the high stability of happiness: the minimal effects of a nuclear catastrophe on life satisfaction
Berger, Eva M. - 2008
happiness? This paper will analyze the impact of a catastrophe, namely the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl, on life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265019