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A review of the circular economy and its implementation

Heshmati, Almas - 2015

Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...

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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021

A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...

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Recoupling economic and social prosperity

Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020

This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...

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Assessing welfare accounts

Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002

The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...

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Workplace positive actions, trans people's self-esteem and human resources' evaluations

Bozani, Vasiliki; Drydakis, Nick; Sidiropoulou, Katerina; … - 2019

This study provides empirical patterns regarding trans people's self-esteem-oriented reflections during observations of positive workplace actions. The case of a 2015 UK workplace guide is utilized to fulfil our aims. We adopt Rawls' political philosophy framework in order to evaluate whether...

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Pension wealth and the gender wealth gap

Cordova, Karla; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva - 2022

We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the … available in the SOEP for 2012 only. While the relative raw gender wealth gap is about 35% (or 31,000 euros) when analysing the …

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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of culture and institutions

Booth, Alison L.; Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2016

norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market … consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices … regimes outlined above. In particular we investigate gender differences in competitive choices for different birth cohorts in …

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Looking for a star: evaluating the effect of the cohesion policy on regional well-being

Albanese, Giuseppe; Carrieri, Vincenzo; Speziali, Maria … - 2021

This paper presents new evidence on the last concluded wave (2007-2013) of the EU cohesion policy. We depart from the broadly used GDP-growth approach and evaluate the impact of EU Structural Funds (SFs) on a battery of regional well-being indicators including economic, educational, health, and...

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Life satisfaction, subjective wealth, and adaptation to vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017

Dang, Hai-Anh; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020

decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … wealth, particularly for longer durations of vulnerability. Higher education levels generally exhibit a stronger lack of … adaptation. The lack of adaptation to vulnerability is, however, similar at different education levels for subjective wealth. We …

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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019

Dang, Hai-Anh; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022

traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility - as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction … - exists. While daughters have less subjective wealth and life satisfaction than sons, daughters have higher transmission of … estimated impacts of mothers' SWB by up to 40%, but does not change the gender gaps. Our results are robust to different model …

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