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time series of subjective well-being with the time series of social capital and/or GDP. First, we adopt a bivariate …. GDP follows a reverse path: in the short run it is more positively correlated to the changes in well-being than in the … subjective well-being on time series of both social capital and GDP, which confirm the results from bivariate analysis. …
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variations which are more strongly correlated with the trends of GDP relative to other countries. What is the possible role of … social trust in predicting such variations? We compare the capacity of the trends of GDP and of social trust to predict the … to that of GDP. Our conclusion is that in the medium-term, even in countries considered as an extreme case of relevance …
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time series of subjective well-being with the time series of social capital and/or GDP. First, we adopt a bivariate …. GDP follows a reverse path: in the short run it is more positively correlated to the changes in well-being than in the … subjective well-being on time series of both social capital and GDP, which confirm the results from bivariate analysis. …
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The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic growth, incomes generally are rising, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison"—what...
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economic and social conditions: it is the country with the highest GDP per capita in the world, more than 40% of its population …
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socio-demographic aspects using WVS-EVS data between 1980 and 2005. My results are encouraging, showing evidence of positive …
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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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Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life … fourfold improvement in the level of per capita consumption that has occurred. As in the European countries, in China the trend … in China has fallen chiefly on the lowest socioeconomic groups. An initially highly egalitarian distribution of life …
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Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life … fourfold improvement in the level of per capita consumption that has occurred. As in the European countries, in China the trend … in China has fallen chiefly on the lowest socioeconomic groups. An initially highly egalitarian distribution of life …
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The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic growth, incomes generally are rising, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what...
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