Based on surveys undertaken in two urban areas and two rural areas in Argentina and Paraguay. Seeks to identify possible sources of under- reporting and tests the adequacy of alternative census procedures.

Describes various methodologies for measuring gender wage differentials and identifies their major advantages and weaknesses.

Discusses five approaches: consumer surplus, technology surplus and time surplus approaches, and competition-linked and export-linked employment effects.

Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-being based on co-existing concepts, resulting in differing measures and giving rise to different potential policy applications. This paper motivates the societal necessity for using well-being...

The approach of the procedures of measuring the competitive advantages both at industrial sector level, and at company level is justified due to the fact that some tools and forms of expressing competitiveness are valid for the two levels. Industry (as industrial sector) in defined as total...