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The Inclusive Wealth Index. A Sustainability Indicator, Really?

Thiry, Géraldine; Roman, Philippe - HAL - 2014

well-being, the Inclusive Wealth Framework and the related Inclusive Wealth Index (thereafter IWI), first released during …, development and sustainability economics, the indicator is supposed to bring information about the wealth of nations and their … sustainability, in a comprehensive way. The inclusive wealth framework is nevertheless fraught with limitations, due to questionable …

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Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US

Brodeur, Abel; Flèche, Sarah - HAL - 2013

This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and street-levels and find that the association between well-being and neighbors' income follows an...

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Valuing jobs via retirement: European evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; Fawaz, Yarine - HAL - 2009

While much has been made of the value of employment relative to unemployment, much less is known about the value of work relative to retirement. We here use two European panel datasets to first show that psychological well-being (measured on the EURO-D and GHQ scales) barely changes on average...

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Measuring well-being across Europe: Description of the ESS Well-being Module and preliminary findings

Hupper, Felicia A.; Marks, Nic; Clark, Andrew E.; … - HAL - 2008

It has become customary to judge the success of a society through the use of objective indicators, predominantly economic and social ones. Yet in most developed nations, increases in income, education and health have arguably not produced comparable increases in happiness or life satisfaction....

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Boon or Bane? Others' unemployment, well-being and job insecurity

Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - HAL - 2008

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...

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The organisational commitment of workers in OECD countries

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2011

The degree to which workers identify with their firms, and how hard they are willing to work for them, would seem to be key variables for the understanding of both firm productivity and individual labour-market outcomes. This paper uses repeated cross-section ISSP data from 1997 and 2005 to...

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The curved relationship between subjective well-being and age

Clark, Andrew E.; Oswald, Andrew J. - HAL - 2006

This article is concerned with a body of work on happiness and age represented by important papers such as Mroczek and Kolarz (1998) and Mroczek and Spiro (2005). Using a large British data set, the paper presents new longitudinal evidence. It also points out that, perhaps unknown to many...

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Born to be mild? Cohort effects don't explain why well-being is U-shaped in age

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2006

The statistical analysis of cross-section data very often reveals a U-shaped relationship between subjective well-being and age. This paper uses fourteen waves of British panel data to distinguish between a pure life-cycle or aging effect, and a fixed cohort effect that depends on year of birth....

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - HAL - 2014

This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit country-year...

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Conceptions of freedom and ranking opportunity sets. A typology

Baujard, Antoinette - HAL - 2007

A wide diversity of rankings of opportunity sets are characterized through what is now commonly called the freedom of choice literature. An op-portunity set is better ranked when it provides more freedom. This survey is or-ganized as a typology of the rankings, according to the specific...

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