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Urban well-being indicators: learnings from a participatory adjustment of the OECD Better-Life Index
Going beyond a mere material understanding of well-being, more and more indicator sets are developed in order to measure well-being...
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Economic Performance, Happiness, and Sustainable Development in OECD Countries
Economic progress has pushed human beings to pay greater attention on their happiness, and various indicators to measure it have been created with...
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On the evolution of the gender gap in life expectancy at normal retirement age for OECD countries
Population aging is evolving at different rates across countries and over time, and it represents a long-term challenge for both the sustainability...
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Regional Well-Being Disparities in Morocco and its OECD Partners
This article proposes a multidimensional analysis grid to assess regional disparities, transcending monetary considerations. This grid agrees overall...
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Assessment of Urban Quality of Life Index at Local Scale with Different Weighting Approaches
The rapid increase of population and urban growth have caused huge challenges in ensuring and sustaining environmental and life quality in...
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Construction of a Reflective Quality of Life Index for Gauteng Province in South Africa
This paper demonstrates a simple methodological sequence for the statistical calculation of a context-sensitive quality of life index especially...
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Quality of Life, Well-Being and the Human Development Index: A Media Narrative for the Developed World?
The Human Development Index (HDI) produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been in existence since 1990. In its annual Human...
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Covid-19: did higher trust societies fare better?
Social trust — between governments and people and between individuals—and trust in science were proposed as prerequisites for tackling covid. Others...
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The Index Construction and Evaluation of Quality of Life in China and Its Spatial Mismatch with Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from a City-Level Perspective
Over the past two decades, China has undergone a rapid urbanization process. As such, determining the current status of the quality of life in...
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Differences and Similarities in Youth Social-emotional Competence Measurement Between North American and East Asian Countries: Exploratory Graph Analysis using the OECD Survey on Social and Emotional Skills Data
Social-emotional competence (SEC) is a multidimensional construct involving diverse skills and mindsets contributing to intrapersonal and...
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Construction of Sub-country Level Environment Policy Stringency Index: A Study on Indian States
The abundance of country-level socio-economic development indices is of limited help unless sub-country-level indices on the quality of policies are...
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Asylum Migration in OECD Countries: In Search of Lost Well-Being
Alongside the economic determinants and unobserved structural forces that drive migration flows, asylum migration faces additional natural and...
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The Impact of Teleworking on Women’s Work–Life Balance and Life Satisfaction: a Longitudinal Study from Singapore
As teleworking gains widespread global acceptance as a prevalent work arrangement, it is crucial to understand its implications for life...
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More is not Always Better: The Curvilinear Relationship Between Intercultural Learning and Adolescents’ Global Competence
Being globally competent is significant for students to effectively navigate the complexities of the interconnected world and live a high quality of...
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How's Life in Your Region? Measuring Regional Material Living Conditions, Quality of Life and Subjective Well-Being in OECD Countries Using a Robust, Conditional Benefit-of-the-Doubt Model
This paper measures and analyses well-being in the 349 regions in OECD countries. It is argued that the multidimensional nature of well-being and the...
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Objective Inequality Indexes Joining Income with Life Expectancy Through the Life Quality Index of Sub-populations
Two indexes are developed to compare inequality: one within, the other between countries. The indexes are objective, more transparent and...
