Die Analyse der Statik und Dynamik sozialer Phänomene anhand von empirischen Daten hat in den Sozialwissenschaften eine lange Tradition (Adorno 1970; Lowe 1926). Am Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts können Forschende auf eine Vielzahl qualitativ hochwertiger Daten zurückgreifen (Fachinger u. a. 2010),...

Für die Sozialwissenschaften existieren im Bereich der informationellen Infrastruktur zahlreiche, qualitativ hochwertige und sich zum Teil ergänzende Angebote. Allerdings sind an verschiedenen Stellen Defizite erkennbar. So gibt es für den Bereich der Printmedien mit dem System der verteilten...

2002 saw the first large-scale survey of household wealth carried out in Australia since World War I. Conducted as part of the second wave of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (or HILDA) Survey, it covered all main components of asset portfolios and debts. This paper uses...

The accepted view among psychologists and, increasingly, economists is that household income has statistically significant but only small effects on measures of subjective well-being. Income, however, is clearly an imperfect measure of the economic circumstances of households. Using data drawn...

The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that economic well-being has a statistically significant but only weak effect on happiness/subjective well-being (SWB). This view is based almost entirely on weak relationships between household income and SWB. But income is clearly...

In this paper we explore the meaning and relevance of community and social capital, working mainly in economics though drawing on other disciplines. Economic studies of community have focussed in one of two main areas, neighbourhood studies and regional economics. We discuss the contributions of...