'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...

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...

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...

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...

The present study supports the implementation of the 2022 Communication "Putting people first, securing sustainable and inclusive growth, unlocking the potential of the EU's outermost regions". As part of this communication, the European Commission encourages the Outermost Regions (OR) and their...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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

"The economic development process in India is one that has induced new difficulties and hardships into the lives of poor and working people despite its alleged achievements. In villages, farming families confront an agrarian crisis, with rising costs of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, low...

Sanktionen im Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB) II werden in der Öffentlichkeit kontrovers diskutiert. Soweit erwerbsfähige Leistungsberechtigte nicht ohnehin ihren gesetzlich geregelten Pflichten nachkommen, sollen Sanktionen sie zur Mitwirkung bewegen. Grundsätzlich wird zwischen zwei Sanktionstypen...

The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an underrepresentation of women. Using individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County Medical Examiner, we jointly investigate the...

Die Analyse dokumentiert die Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen der sog. Live-Ins in der häuslichen Pflege und verdeutlicht anhand von Fallbeispielen aus der Beratungspraxis typische Problemkonstellationen. Die Kernprobleme sind ausufernde Arbeitszeiten sowie unbezahlte Arbeit. Es kommt zu...

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...