Bandeira, Rita Chambel, Maria José Carvalho, Vânia Sofia
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Social Indicators Research
Previous studies on the work-family relationship have analyzed the influence of work-family conflict and work-family enrichment on an individuals’ lives, namely on their well-being and health. Besides, attempts have been made to analyze the influence of other aspects of the labor context on this relationship, such as job insecurity. However, few ha...
Paprotny, Dominik
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Social Indicators Research
Are countries at a low level of socio-economic development catching up with developed countries over time or rather falling further behind? Existing work on the subject is not conclusive, partially due to methodological differences. The aim of the paper is to carry out a broader analysis with longer time series and a more diverse set of indicators....
Rim, Gwang-Nam Jang, Sun-Nam An, Chol-Ju Hwang, Sun-Hui Ri, Son-Hui
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Social Indicators Research
At present, many international organizations and scholars, who are aimed to compare and assess country-specific economy or competitiveness, have set different standards and indicators and tried to assess the economic strength of individual country. But most of these standards and indicators are for the assessment of individual aspects and what is w...
Mussida, Chiara Zanin, Luca
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Social Indicators Research
We investigate factors affecting the job search channels (newspapers, agency, informal network, direct contact, internet) of unemployed individuals in Italy using a multivariate probit model. We separately analyse unemployed individuals who lost their job or who are entering the labour market for the first time (i.e., with or without previous job e...
Fu, Yelin Xiangtianrui, Kong Luo, Hao Yu, Lean
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Social Indicators Research
This paper is concerned with proposing a new mechanism to re-construct the published composite indicators that are conventionally aggregated in terms of equal weighting scheme, by means of taking all possible preferences among the indicators into account. Regarding to each preference, we apply a sophisticated mathematical transformation to formulat...
Kilburn, Kelly Ferrone, Lucia Pettifor, Audrey Wagner, Ryan Gómez-Olivé, F. Xavier Kahn, Kathy
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Social Indicators Research
Despite the growing popularity of multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis, its use to measure the impact of social protection programs remains scarce. Using primary data collected for the evaluation of HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 068, a randomized, conditional cash transfer intervention for young girls in South Africa that ran fr...
Fernandez-Urbano, Roger Kulic, Nevena
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Social Indicators Research
Using the Panel of Social Inequalities in Catalonia, Spain (PaD 2001–2012), this article investigates the relationship between perceptions of economic conditions and subjective well-being in times of prosperity and economic crisis. It also analyses how this relationship plays out across different social backgrounds. Periods of economic crisis and p...
Fiorillo, Damiano Lavadera, Giuseppe Lubrano Nappo, Nunzia
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Social Indicators Research
In the last ten years, interest in social capital as a mechanism for understanding actual and perceived health has been increasing among economists. Although the pathways by which social participation, as a dimension of social capital, may have a positive effect on health seem clearly identified, empirical evidence is mixed because the lack of long...
Grimaccia, Elena Naccarato, Alessia
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Social Indicators Research
Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire foods in socially acceptable ways. The study presents a comparison of the principal determinants of individual food insecurity in Europe and other Continents, with particular regard to gender, since the litera...
Biru, Wubneshe Dessalegn Zeller, Manfred Loos, Tim K.
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Social Indicators Research
Many studies evaluating the impact of adoption on welfare focused on adoption of a single technology giving little attention on the complementarity/substitutability among agricultural technologies. Yet, smallholders commonly adopt several complementary technologies at a time and their adoption decision is best characterized by multivariate models. ...
