'Key figures on European living conditions' provides an overview of the plentiful information about living conditions available on Eurostat's website and in its online databases. The publication is divided into this introduction and 3 main chapters. The introduction includes information about...

'Key figures on European living conditions' provides an overview of the plentiful information about living conditions available on Eurostat's website and in its online databases. The publication is divided into this introduction and 3 main chapters. The introduction includes information about...

Im vorliegenden Report werden ausgewählte Ergebnisse einer Repräsentativbefragung in ländlichen Räumen berichtet. Sie wurde in Gemeinden unter 50.000 Einwohner*innen im Herbst 2016 in Deutschland durchgeführt. Die Nettostichprobe umfasste 1.717 Personen ab 18 Jahren. Die Befragung war im...

This paper compares living and working conditions in the U.S. and Germany for the year 2022 with a focus on economic, social and environmental standards. Twelve dimensions of comparison are used, split into 15 themes, which are examined with 80 indicators. Subjective indicators based on polls or...

This publication contains a selection of the key indicators for the European Union (EU), EU countries and countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), drawing from the rich collection of data available at Eurostat. These indicators play a crucial role in analysing various...

This publication contains a selection of the key indicators for the European Union (EU), EU countries and countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), drawing from the rich collection of data available at Eurostat. These indicators play a crucial role in analysing various...

This paper compares living and working conditions in the U.S. and Germany for the year 2022 with a focus on economic, social and environmental standards. Twelve dimensions of comparison are used, split into 15 themes, which are examined with 80 indicators. Subjective indicators based on polls or...

There has been a good deal of attention in Irish policy discourse to housing supply and affordability. However, there has been less focus on the extent to which the quality of housing impacts the wellbeing of children and their parents. This study addresses this gap in knowledge by using data...

Ein Vergleich der Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen in den USA und in Deutschland im Jahr 2022 zeigt, dass Deutschland bei einer Vielzahl von Indikatoren besser abschneidet als die USA. Gemessen werden die Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen anhand von zwölf Dimensionen unter Rückgriff auf über 80...

Im vorliegenden Report werden ausgewählte Ergebnisse einer Repräsentativbefragung in ländlichen Räumen berichtet. Sie wurde in Gemeinden unter 50.000 Einwohner*innen im Herbst 2016 in Deutschland durchgeführt. Die Nettostichprobe umfasste 1.717 Personen ab 18 Jahren. Die Befragung war im...

"China, Laos and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against party-state politics. In these countries, sweeping processes of change open up new vistas of opportunity and imaginaries of the future alongside much uncertainty and anxiety,...

Unemployment risk is highly heterogeneous in Denmark: a group of marginal workers constitutes 15 per cent of the labour force but makes up roughly 60% of the unemployed in Denmark. These marginal workers cycle more through jobs, have longer and more frequent spells of unemployment and leave...

Key figures on European living conditions presents a selection of statistical data on the European Union (EU). Most data cover the EU and its Member States as well as the EFTA countries. This publication may be viewed as an introduction to EU statistics on this topic and provides a starting...

Measuring growth with ordered categorical variables is problematic due to their lack of cardinal measure and the equivocation and ambiguity inherent in the arbitrary attribution of cardinal scale to ordinal variates. Here, noting that the mean in a cardinal paradigm is the cumulation over its...

Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future -- Phill Wilcox, Jonathan Rigg and Minh Nguyen -- 2 Risk Perception and Lowland Rice Farming Change in Savannakhet Province, Southern Laos...

Nearly a third of American children experience parental divorce before adulthood. To understand its consequences, we use linked tax and Census records for over 5 million children to examine how divorce affects family arrangements and children's long-term outcomes. Following divorce, parents move...

Development of Happiness in the Contemporary World explores the shift from GDP-focused metrics to alternative models like Doughnut Economics, highlighting innovative approaches to measuring well-being and sustainability in modern economic systems

Living conditions in the rural area are precarious in Romania, our country being at the bottom of the European ranking, and the situation is getting worse as the degree of isolation increases (mainly in the hilly and mountain areas) combined with the precariousness of livelihood resources in...

Early life conditions can have profound effects on individual health, longevity, and biological fitness. Two classes of hypotheses are used to explain the evolutionary origins of these effects: developmental constraints (DC) hypotheses, which focus on the deleterious effects of low-quality...

Early life conditions can have profound effects on individual health, longevity, and biological fitness. Two classes of hypotheses are used to explain the evolutionary origins of these effects: developmental constraints (DC) hypotheses, which focus on the deleterious effects of low-quality...