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Civil wars beyond their borders: the human capital and health consequences of hosting refugees
Baez, Javier E. - 2008
Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a...
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How large is the private sector in Africa? Evidence from national accounts and labor markets
Stampini, Marco; Leung, Ron; Diarra, Setou M.; Pla, … - 2011
In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most … sector countries are concentrated in Western Africa (Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Senegal and Togo), Central Africa … (Cameroun, Republic of Congo) and Eastern Africa (Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania), with the addition of Mauritius. Countries …
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Unions and Collective Bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Insights from Quantitative Studies
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2025
This article reviews quantitative research on unions and collective bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the … specific situation in Sub-Saharan Africa influences unionization and collective bargaining. The informal sector, ethnic divide … and globalization entail serious threats to workers' unionization. The increasing influence of China and neoliberal policy …
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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269838
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Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529124
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Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs— increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
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Happiness and growth the world over: time series evidence on the happiness-income paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - 2009
There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately - 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition - and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time series...
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Happiness and economic growth: does the cross section predict time trends? ; evidence from developing countries
Easterlin, Richard A.; Sawangfa, Onnicha - 2009
Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries,...
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Happiness and economic growth: The evidence
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are positively associated. Evidence for this is found in time series data for developed countries, transition countries, and less developed countries, whether analyzed separately or pooled....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330131
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Paradox Lost?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2016
Or Paradox Regained? The answer is Paradox Regained. New data confirm that for countries worldwide long-term trends in happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a different conclusion, aside from problems of data...
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