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A Success Story? Happiness in the New Post-Communist EU Member States

Baltatescu, Sergiu - 2011

-economic transformations in these countries? Did they manage to increase their citizens’ happiness in this process? To give an answer to these … Development Indicators. Developments in average national happiness have been compared with the economic (GDP, optimism concerning … happiness levels …

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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 … artifact. Some analysts assert that in less developed countries happiness and economic growth are positively related "up to … initial level, life satisfaction has not improved. -- happiness ; life satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; income ; long …

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China's life satisfaction, 1990 - 2010

Easterlin, Richard A.; Morgan, Robson; Switek, Malgorzata; … - 2013

; happiness ; life satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; transition countries ; China …

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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016

We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern histories, there is no evidence on how it affected the...

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Minding the happiness gap : political institutions and perceived quality of life in transition

Nikolova, Milena - 2015

the advanced and transition societies. The rule of law had an additional role of reducing the happiness gap in the 1990s …

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In transit : the well-being of migrants from transition and post-transition countries

Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2014

The extant literature has focused on migration's consequences for the receiving countries. In this paper, we ask a different but important question: how much do migrants gain from moving to another country? Using Gallup World Poll data and a methodology combining statistical matching with...

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Cross-country heterogeneity and endogeneity bias in life satisfaction estimations - macro- and micro-level evidence for advanced, developing and transition countries

Krenz, Astrid - 2013

The past literature found evidence for the presence of endogeneity issues due to individuals' heterogeneity and omitted time-varying variables in the relationship between income and life satisfaction on the micro-level for the UK (Powdthavee (2010)). The aim of the present contribution is to put...

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Country patterns of behavior on broader dimensions of human development

Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances; Samman, Emma - 2007

countries do poorly. -- Human development ; quality of life ; happiness ; capabilities ; country behavior …

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Migrant well-being after leaving transition economies : evidence is mixed on whether quality of life improves for migrants from post-socialist economies

Nikolova, Milena - 2015

Most comparative research suggests that immigrants from post-socialist countries earn less than natives, work in jobs for which they are overqualified, and may experience unhappiness compared with natives, other immigrants, and non-migrants. In contrast, one study presents causal evidence which...

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Happiness Convergence in Transition Countries

Guriev, Sergei - 2018

The “transition happiness gap” has been one of the most robust findings in the life satisfaction literature. Until very … in 2015-16) and the 2010-2016 waves of the annual Gallup World Poll. We find that by 2016 the transition happiness gap … had closed. This “happiness convergence” has taken place both due to a “happiness recovery” in post-communist countries …

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