While the visitor industry is a key economic engine for Los Angeles, its lodging industry shows signs of structural weakness. Compared to the size of its visitor economy, LA's lodging inventory is only 62 percent of the national average. Compared to other cities with which it competes for...

This article analyses the intergenerational evolution of nutritional inequality in Spain between 1840 and 1984. With male height data (N=358,253), the secular trend of biological well-being and intergenerational anthropometric inequalities are studied based on the coefficient of variation,...

We propose a micro-econometric investigation into the relation between subjective life satisfaction and income distribution, using a balanced panel survey of the Russian population (RLMS), running from 1994 to 2000, including 4096 individuals. We show that in the context of the Russian very...

Well-being consists of many dimensions such as income, health and education. A society exhibits greater dependence between its dimensions of well-being when the positions of the individuals in the different dimensions are more aligned or correlated. Differences in dependence may lead to very...

Can self-assessed health (SAH) be relied upon to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. We document this finding and assess its robustness to the assumptions...

Individual well-being depends not only on income but also on other dimensions of life, such as health, the quality of social relations and of the environment, employment, and job satisfaction. In this chapter we survey the economic literature on how to construct such overall measures of...

This paper examines the importance of non-monetary dimensions of work in studies of inequality in total returns to work. Relying on the methodological advances in the field of multidimensional inequality and using the representative sample of Ukrainian industrial establishments over the period...