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The Impact of Social Capital on Organ Donation: Evidence from the Netherlands Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Hans Schmeets, Floris Peters
The Netherlands faces a shortage of organ donors. Figures from Statistics Netherlands show that of Dutch residents aged 12 and over, only one in four is a registered organ donor. In July 2020, a new law has changed the system from ‘opt-in’ to ‘opt-out’, with the aim of increasing the number of registered donors. Under the new system, everyone is in principle automatically registered as a donor unless
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Welfare States and the Health Impact of Social Capital: Focusing on the Crowding-Out and Crowding-In Perspectives Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-04-08 Naoki Akaeda
In recent decades, studies in various countries have found that social capital, such as social trust and civic participation, improves health. However, some studies have suggested that the influence of social capital on health may vary depending on welfare provisions because social policies may alter how social capital works. Therefore, this study adopts the crowding-out and the crowding-in perspectives
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Assessing Socio-ecological Systems Using Social Media Data: An Approach for Forested Landscapes in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-04-08 Alejandro Huertas Herrera, Mónica Toro Manríquez, Rosina Soler, Cristian Lorenzo, María Vanessa Lencinas, Guillermo Martínez Pastur
The purpose of this study was to analyse how visitors valued a socio-ecological system through the use of social media data. We gathered YouTube´s videos of Ushuaia city and its surrounding forested landscapes (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina) posted between 2010 and 2020. We used the screen time (seconds) of each video to compare the value of visitors on biophysical, cultural, and biodiversity attributes
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Examining Wealth Trends in Kombewa, Kenya Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Alizée McLorg, Kennedy Omolo, Peter Sifuna, Andrea Shaw, Bhavneet Walia, David A. Larsen
This study examined wealth trends in a rural Kenyan community between 2011 and 2018. Understanding wealth trends is important for understanding health outcomes and overall well-being of vulnerable communities, and for informing economic and health policy that can improve specific wealth challenges. Information regarding household materials, assets, education, and mortality from 20,370 households in
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Measuring Corruption: A Critical Analysis of the Existing Datasets and Their Suitability for Diachronic Transnational Research Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 José-Miguel Bello y Villarino
Any researcher on corruption has faced at some point the dataset dilemma. How can one assess the incidence of a phenomenon on corruption levels if we cannot determine how much corruption is there in the first place? The problem compounds when the research has a transnational or comparative element. How can one assess how different corruption levels are in different jurisdictions if we cannot be sure
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Effects of Government Characteristics on the Quality of Life Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-24 Chae-jeong Lee
This article examines how the characteristics of a government, which are defined in terms of the quality, size, and function of the government, influence the quality of life of its citizens by applying fuzzy-set analysis on data from OECD countries. The results show that the quality of life is enhanced when the quality of the government, or its policy effectiveness, is maintained at a certain level
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What School Factors are Associated with the Success of Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Students? An Empirical Investigation Using PISA Data Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-24 Tommaso Agasisti, Francesco Avvisati, Francesca Borgonovi, Sergio Longobardi
Many school-level policies, such as school funding formulae and teacher allocation mechanisms, aim at reducing the influence of students’ low socio-economic condition on academic achievement. Benchmarks and indicators based on large-scale international assessments can be used to measure academic success and identify if and when disadvantaged students are successful. We build on such work and develop
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Managing for Stakeholders Using Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Carlos Serrano-Cinca, Yolanda Fuertes-Callén, Beatriz Cuellar-Fernández
Managing for shareholders means maximising the market value of a company by increasing their returns. Managing for stakeholders means simultaneously creating value for multiple parties, such as employees, government, suppliers, customers, the environment and even society as a whole, which requires a multiple-criteria decision-making approach. This paper develops social indicators to measure the value
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Promoting work Engagement in the Accounting Profession: a Machine Learning Approach Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-21 Jose Joaquin del Pozo-Antúnez, Horacio Molina-Sánchez, Antonio Ariza-Montes, Francisco Fernández-Navarro
In this paper, a non-linear multi-dimensional (machine learning-based) index for accountants that relates work engagement scores (according to accountants’ perceptions) with the seven Job Quality Indices (JQI) (proposed by Eurofound) has been proposed. The goal of the research is two-fold, namely, (i) to quantify the extent to which the JQI variables explain the work engagement scores, and (ii) to
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Who Cares About Environmental Quality in the MENA Region? Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Ghassan Dibeh, Ali Fakih, Walid Marrouch, Ghida Matar
This paper provides new evidence on the preference for environmental quality among youth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Our paper aims to provide insights into the relationship between youth outlooks and characteristics and environmental awareness. We use a unique and nationally representative micro-level dataset extracted from the SAHWA Youth Survey (Barcelona Centre for International
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Toward a Better Understanding of Perceptions of Neighborhood Social Cohesion in Rural and Urban Places Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Eileen E. Avery, Joan M. Hermsen, Danielle C. Kuhl
Despite longstanding ideas in sociology and related disciplines that hold rural life as being more communal and harmonious, little is known about the ways that social cohesion is defined or distributed in rural versus urban places. Stemming largely from scholarship on urban neighborhood inequality and concentrated disadvantage, as well as subsequent offshoots of collective efficacy theory, studies
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Not Simply ‘Counting Heads’: A Gender Diversity Index for the Team Level Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Anne Laure Humbert, Elisabeth Anna Guenther, Jörg Müller
This article proposes a new composite measure of gender diversity for research teams that goes beyond simply ‘counting heads’. This measure adopts a more elaborated understanding of gender diversity than merely relying on the proportion of women and men, by taking into account the outcomes of gendered processes along seven grounds of diversity (age, care responsibilities, marital status, education
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Material Security as a Measure of Poverty: A Validation Study with People Who Use Drugs Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-14 Jenna van Draanen, Kanna Hayashi, M.-J. Milloy, Ekaterina Nosova, Hennady Shulha, Cameron Grant, Lindsey Richardson
Poverty and socioeconomic status (SES) are conventionally measured through indicators of income, wealth, education and/or occupation, but for some populations such as people who use drugs (PWUD), these measures may not sufficiently capture material well-being. This paper examines the validity of material security, measured through a modified Family Resource Scale (FRS), as an alternative measure of
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Determinants of Declining School Belonging 2000–2018: The Case of Sweden Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 Björn Högberg, Solveig Petersen, Mattias Strandh, Klara Johansson
Students’ sense of belonging at school has declined across the world in recent decades, and more so in Sweden than in almost any other high-income country. However, we do not know the characteristics or causes of these worldwide trends. Using data on Swedish students aged 15–16 years from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) between 2000 and 2018, we show that the decline in school
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Economic Analysis of Portuguese Public Hospitals Through the Construction of Quality, Efficiency, Access, and Financial Related Composite Indicators Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Rita Matos, Diogo Ferreira, Maria Isabel Pedro
Hospitals consume most of the health systems' financial resources. In Portugal, for instance, public hospitals represent more than half of the National Health Service debt and are decisive in their financial insufficiency. Although profit is not the primary goal of hospitals, it is essential to guarantee their financial sustainability to ensure users' health care and the necessary resources. An analysis
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Social Study Resources and Social Wellbeing Before and During the Intelligent COVID-19 Lockdown in The Netherlands Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Llewellyn Ellardus van Zyl
The first intelligent COVID-19 lockdown resulted in radical changes within the tertiary educational system within the Netherlands. These changes posed new challenges for university students and many social welfare agencies have warned that it could have adverse effects on the social wellbeing (SWB) of university students. Students may lack the necessary social study-related resources (peer- and lecturer
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Risk and Vulnerability Differences Across the European Union Based on an Accidental-Injury Proneness Index Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Mercedes Camarero
Injuries from accidents are an important public health problem in Europe. This study provides a diagnosis of this social problem, examining whether differences in accident rates and injury rates between European countries can be explained in terms of a collective propensity or tendency to suffer accidental injury. Identifying the social factors that can affect the predisposition in a country of its
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Modelling Bourdieusian Social Reproduction Theory Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Shahzad Farid, Saif Ur Rehman Saif Abbasi, Qaisar Khalid Mahmood
Social reproduction theory claims that the social structure of inequality is the product of unequal distribution of resources. This inequality perpetuates across generations due to the strategies that agents use to maintain and enhance their relative positions in the social space of positions. This study built the triptych model of reproduction of social class to evaluate the social reproduction theory
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Social and Economic Convergence Across Brazilian States Between 1990 and 2010 Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Rubiane Daniele Cardoso de Almeida, Philipp Ehrl, Tito Belchior Silva Moreira
The present paper analyzes the convergence in economic and social terms across Brazilian states from 1990 to 2010. We argue that a more ample perspective is enlightening because income convergence does not necessarily go hand in hand with social convergence and income is not the only relevant aspect of well-being. Social convergence is captured by selected indicators, such as years of study, life expectancy
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Weighting the Dimensions of the Multidimensional Poverty Index: Findings from Sri Lanka Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 N. P. Ravindra Deyshappriya, Simon Feeny
The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative’s Multidimensional Poverty Index has become a widely adopted measure of wellbeing. However, it is criticised for applying equal weights to its three dimensions: health; education; and living standards. There is no a priori reason to expect that all three dimensions equally contribute to wellbeing. This article reports on a Discrete Choice Experiment
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Deservingness for "Family 500 +" Benefit in Poland: Qualitative Study of Internet Debates Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-02 Piotr Michoń
The need for qualitative research of deservingness perception is strongly emphasised in the literature. This article studies the perception of deservingness for a "Family 500 +"—cash benefit in Poland. For the first time, data from online forums was used in the studies of deservingness and welfare attitudes. It allowed to avoid numerous limitations associated with social surveys. The qualitative analysis
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How Gender-Based Disparities affect Women’s Job Satisfaction? Evidence from Euro-Area Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-02 Adolfo C. Fernández Puente, Nuria Sánchez-Sánchez
This paper analyses how gender-based disparities in the Euro-Area affect women’s job satisfaction using the EWCS (2015), and the Global Gender Gap Index introduced by the World Economic Forum. Heckman's two-stage estimates show that women have a higher probability of job satisfaction than their male colleagues, which endorses the paradox of the female contented worker. There does not seem to be an
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Effects of Public Healthcare Budget Cuts on Life Satisfaction in Spain Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Iban Ortuzar, Gemma Renart, Angels Xabadia
This paper investigates the impact the changes in the health care budget had on the reported levels of satisfaction in Spain during the recent economic crisis. We match individual-level data from six different waves of the European Social Survey (ESS) with regional-level expenditures in both public and private health care services between 2008 and 2018. Specifically, we analyze the effect of the three
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Mind the Job: The Role of Occupational Characteristics in Explaining Gender Discrimination Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Clara Cortina, Jorge Rodríguez, M. José González
Using correspondence testing, we investigate how job characteristics affect gender discrimination in hiring. In particular, we analyse whether discrimination against women is moderated by the occupation’s sex composition, required level of decision-making and expected educational level. To do so, we carried out a correspondence study in 2016, in which we sent two pairs of matched male–female applications
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Financial Development, Technological Innovation and Income Inequality: Time Series Evidence from Turkey Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Murat Cetin, Harun Demir, Selin Saygin
The main aim of the study is to analyze the link between technological innovation and income inequality for Turkey in terms of financial Kuznets curve (FKC) hypothesis. The study uses time-series data from 1987 to 2018. We employ the Hatemi-J cointegration, ARDL bounds test and VECM Granger causality techniques to investigate the relations between the variables. We also employ the DOLS, FMOLS and CCR
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Impact of the Intra-household Education Gap on Wives’ and Husbands’ Well-Being: Evidence from Cross-Country Microdata Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Xiangdan Piao, Xinxin Ma, Shunsuke Managi
Using original cross-sectional Internet survey data from 32 countries in six continents, we investigate the effect of intra-household education gap on the well-being of wives and husbands. According to the results, both wives and husbands with larger intra-household education gaps report a lower probability of life satisfaction. In particular, subjective well-being is worse for a wife or husband with
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Does Social Capital Affect Voter Turnout? Evidence from Italy Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-28 Nadia Fiorino, Emma Galli, Nicola Pontarollo
In this paper we develop a new composite indicator, named Social Catalyst, able to account for the complex and multifaceted nature of the social capital in a unitary measure. We use our indicator, as well as its components, to explore the relation between social capital and electoral participation in the parliamentary elections in Italy from 1994 to 2008, addressing the potential endogeneity bias.
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Sustainable Development: Actual Trends on Synthetic Indicators, Non-aggregative and Configurational Approaches Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Norat Roig-Tierno, Alberto Arcagni
Sustainable development is key for the fundamental challenges of humanity. The use of non-aggregative approaches can be attractive when trying to understand the relationships of humanity with both nature and society. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a method that merges the advantages of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and identifies patterns of conditions that are necessary or
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Equivalence Scale and Income Poverty: Two Approaches to Estimate Country-specific Scale for the Czech Republic Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Martina Mysíková, Tomáš Želinský, Michaela Jirková, Jiří Večerník
The at-risk-of-poverty rate, the relative income poverty indicator applied in the EU, can be highly sensitive to the equivalence scale used to transform household income to an equivalent for individuals. This study applies two well-established approaches to estimate the equivalence scale: an ‘objective’ one, based on consumption expenditures available in the national Household Budget Survey, and a
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Tolerance for Sustainable Peace Culture in a Divided Society: The effect of Peace Education on Tolerance Tendency and Human Values Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Sevda Serin Tanyel, F. Sülen Şahin Kıralp
In this study, the effect of Peace Education Program (PEP) on eighth grade students' tolerance tendency and human values were examined. The research was carried out with the eighth grades studying in Northern Cyprus during the 2018–2019 academic year. The research was carried out within the framework of the semi-experimental design using the pre-test-post-test monitoring for the results of the experimental
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Women Decision Making Autonomy as a Facilitating Factor for Contraceptive Use for Family Planning in Pakistan Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-19 Muhammad Nadeem, Muhammad Irfan Malik, Mumtaz Anwar, Sobia Khurram
Pakistan is 5th most populous country in the world and striving to achieve population equilibrium. Unfortunately, one in five women in Pakistan has not been using contraceptives and thus bearing unwanted pregnancies. Female’s participation in their own matters and benefits from social, economic, and political spheres has remained very low. Gender inequality is often cited as a barrier to improving
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Measuring Non-electoral Political Participation: Bi-factor Model as a Tool to Extract Dimensions Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-19 Piotr Koc
Political participation is a mainstay of political behavior research. One of the main dilemmas many researchers face pertains to the number of dimensions of political participation, i.e. whether we should model political participation as a unidimensional or multidimensional latent construct. Over the years, scholars usually have favored the solution with more than one dimension of political participation
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Developing a Social Index for Measuring the Public Opinion Regarding the Attainment of Sustainable Development Goals Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-17 Raejung Lee, Jinho Kim
In 2015, United Nations adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. Implementing SDGs is an important issue for companies as well as for nations. However, to consistently monitor and evaluate progress towards these goals, major efforts in developing objective indices for measuring the levels of SDGs are essential. Currently almost all SDG studies uniformly use available
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Vulnerability to Food Insecurity: A Decomposition Exercise for Rural India using the Expected Utility Approach Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-16 Mousumi Das
Devising multi-pronged strategies for those highly prone to food insecurity in the future remains a challenge for food policymakers. This set of food-insecure households faces different kinds of shocks (economic, political, environmental, pandemic, personal, etc.), which render them vulnerable to food insecurity. This study identifies those who are vulnerable to food insecurity, and will be useful
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Measuring Youth Living Conditions in Europe: A Multidimensional Cross-Country Approach Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Helena Corrales-Herrero, Beatriz Rodriguez-Prado
Since the onset of the Great Recession, it could be argued that it is the young who have been hardest hit in their living conditions. This paper offers a comprehensive description of youth living conditions and how they evolved during the recession period. To do so, we develop a synthetic index combining the indicators proposed by experts in the dimensions of Education and Training, Employment and
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The Role of Financial Fragility and Financial Control for Well-Being Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Piotr Bialowolski, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Eileen McNeely
Financial fragility is recognized as a substantial issue for individual well-being. Various estimates show that between 46 and 59% of American adults are financially fragile and thus vulnerable in terms of their well-being. We argue that the role of financial control in shaping well-being outcomes—despite being less recognized in the literature than the role of financial fragility—is equally or even
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Clustering of the Italian Regions Based on Their Equitable and Sustainable Well-Being Indicators: A Three-Way Approach Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-13 Laura Bocci, Pierpaolo D’Urso, Vincenzina Vitale
The aim of this study is to provide an analysis of the Italian regions according to their equitable and sustainable well-being indicators pertaining to several economic, social and environmental domains with reference to the year 2017, in order to identify groups of homogeneous regions taking into account the heterogeneity of the domains. In particular, the regions are grouped into root clusters, which
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What Does Really Drive Consumer Confidence? Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-13 Simona Malovaná, Martin Hodula, Jan Frait
We construct a novel index of households’ macroeconomic environment (HOME) based on the data from 22 high-income European countries between 2002 Q1 and 2018 Q4. The resulting index is in line with the broad features of the countries’ business and financial cycles and captures well households’ perception of their underlying economic situation. We discuss joint properties of the HOME index and the widely
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Rising Female Labor Force Participation and Gender Wage Gap: Evidence From Turkey Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Altan Aldan
This paper investigates the relation between female activity in the labor market and gender wage gaps using regional data from Turkey. Labor force participation of women in Turkey significantly lags behind the developed countries but is increasing. At the same time, raw gender wage gap is quite low in international standards but also increasing. I use the regional variation to analyze the relation
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In Sizing Civil Society, Wording and Format Matter Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Karl D. Jackson, Giovanna Maria Dora Dore
For six decades the civil society and democracy thesis has generated great interest. How dependably can the relationship of associational membership to democracy be demonstrated empirically? Using a data set derived from 37 national surveys in eight countries, this article finds that the questions used commonly to measure civil society are unreliable or simply measure different things, thereby imperiling
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Changes in Social Trust: Evidence from East German Migrants Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Seong Hee Kim
Using three waves of the Germany's individual-level panel data, this paper analyses whether there are any changes in the trust levels of East German migrants who move to the former Western German regions after the reunification. The results demonstrate that the duration of living in the West is positively associated with East German migrants’ trust and that the labour market is the possible channel
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(Re)Constructing the European Economic Sentiment Indicator: An Optimization Approach Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Zrinka Lukac, Mirjana Cizmesija
The last recession in Europe has shown us that econometric models that factor in the qualitative perceptions and expectations of businesses and consumers—along with commonly used quantitative macroeconomic variables—can produce better results in explaining and forecasting economic activity. The European Commission’s Business and Consumer Surveys (BCS) conducted by the European Commission (EC) are high-quality
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The Impact of Socio-economic and Environmental Sustainability on CO 2 Emissions: A Novel Framework for Thirty IEA Countries Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Irfan Khan, Fujun Hou
The extent to which socio-economic factors other than income and household size are associated with household CO2 emissions and whether associations vary across emission domains remains contested in the literature. We explore the impact of socio-economic and environmental sustainability indicators on CO2 emissions in the presence of combustible renewables, and the economic growth of thirty International
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Two-Way, One-Way or Dead-End Streets? Financial and Social Causes and Consequences of Generalized Trust Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Stefan Leenheer, Maurice Gesthuizen, Michael Savelkoul
Scholars disagree on whether and to what extent adult life experiences can influence generalized trust and vice versa. Going beyond the methodological limitations of former studies, we aimed to answer the question as to what extent reciprocal causal relationships exist between generalized trust and the adult life experiences of financial success and (in)formal social contacts. We used two-wave cross-lagged
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Determinants of Middle School Students’ Participation in Shadow Education in Japan Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-06 Naomi Takashiro
Although previous studies have examined the likelihood of students’ participation in shadow education (private supplemental education), these studies have not explained the complex nature of shadow education. The author in the present study examined how eighth graders’ characteristics and their environments in Japan influenced the likelihood of advanced and remedial shadow education in learning mathematics
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Time-Varying Predictability of Labor Productivity on Inequality in United Kingdom Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-05 David Gabauer, Rangan Gupta, Jacobus Nel, Woraphon Yamaka
In this paper, we analyze time-varying predictability of labor productivity for growth in income (and consumption) inequality of the United Kingdom (UK) based on a high-frequency (quarterly) data set over 1975:Q1 to 2016:Q1. Results indicate that the growth rate of an index of labor productivity has a strong predictive power on growth rate of income (and consumption) inequality in the UK. Interestingly
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When Opportunity Knocks: Confronting Theory and Empirics About Dynamics of Gender Wage Inequality Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-04 Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas Augusto van der Velde
We present empirical evidence that large structural shocks are followed by changes in labor market inequality. Specifically, we study short-run fluctuations in adjusted gender wage gaps (unequal pay for equal work) following episodes of structural shocks in the labor markets, using several decades of individual data for a wide selection of transition countries. We find that for cohorts who entered
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A Distributional Analysis of Uni-and Multidimensional Poverty and Inequalities in Ethiopia Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Mekonnen Bersisa, Almas Heshmati
This study analyzes uni-and multidimensional poverty and inequalities in rural and small towns in Ethiopia. Unlike the unidimensional measure, the multidimensional measure of poverty shows all the channels through which poverty may manifest itself; it also shows the extent of deprivation. The analysis uses 6 dimensions with 14 indicators to construct a multidimensional index of poverty and inequalities
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Social Exclusion and Anti-Immigration Attitudes in Europe: The mediating role of Interpersonal Trust Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-01-31 Valerio Pellegrini, Valeria De Cristofaro, Marco Salvati, Mauro Giacomantonio, Luigi Leone
Managing immigration is a challenge at the political, economic, and social levels. Clarifying the social psychological antecedents behind the onset of negative attitudes towards immigrants might help overcome this challenge. The present study investigates the relationships between people’s experience of social exclusion, feelings of generalized interpersonal trust, and anti-immigrant attitudes across
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The Intercultural Dialogue Index (ICDI): An Index for Assessing Intercultural Relations Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Fethi Mansouri, Amanuel Elias
Intercultural dialogue (ICD) refers to a process of contact, interaction and exchange of views on the basis of equality, respect, and mutual understanding between individuals or groups from diverse backgrounds. A large body of research has discussed ICD and its potential value for fostering social cohesion and peaceful coexistence across difference. However, there is a lack of robust benchmark data
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Visualizing Health and Well-Being Inequalities Among Older Europeans Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Aurea Grané, Irene Albarrán, Qi Guo
In this study, we propose a hyper-simplified indicator of health and well-being for data visualization purposes in large datasets and apply it to SHARE survey data, the largest macro survey on health, ageing and retirement for 18 European countries. The indicator is based on four thematic sub-indicators, each focussing on a particular issue, which are obtained from more than twenty mixed variables
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Using the Market Basket Measure to Discuss Income Inequality from the Perspective of Basic Needs Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 Mathieu Dufour, Vivian Labrie, Simon Tremblay-Pepin
The Market Basket Measure (MBM) has been increasingly positioned in Québec and Canada since 2009 as a metric to follow situations of poverty. This article shows that this measure, linked more specifically to the coverage of basic needs, can be used to design three indicators which acknowledge the whole range of income inequalities and the associated disparities in quality of life: (1) the distance
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Composite Measures for Assessing Multidimensional Social Exclusion in Later Life: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-01-25 Sinéad Keogh, Stephen O’Neill, Kieran Walsh
Although there are a number of approaches to constructing a measure of multidimensional social exclusion in later life, theoretical and methodological challenges exist around the aggregation and weighting of constituent indicators. This is in addition to a reliance on secondary data sources that were not designed to collect information on social exclusion. In this paper, we address these challenges
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How Self-Rated is Self-Rated Health? Exploring the Role of Individual and Institutional Factors in Reporting Heterogeneity in Russia Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-01-25 Valerii Baidin, Christopher J. Gerry, Maria Kaneva
In recent years the literature exploring the state dependent nature of individual self-rated health has grown rapidly. We contribute to this ‘reporting heterogeneity’ research field in two main ways. First, we are among the few studies to examine the determinants of reporting heterogeneity in self-rated health in the Russian context. Second, echoing the social determinants of health literature, we
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Beyond Wage Gap, Towards Job Quality Gap: The Role of Inter-Group Differences in Wages, Non-Wage Job Dimensions, and Preferences Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-01-24 Marko Ledić, Ivica Rubil
Wage is not the only thing people care about when assessing the quality of their jobs. Non-wage job dimensions, such as autonomy at work and work-life balance, are important as well. Nevertheless, there is vast literature comparing groups of employed people that focuses on the inter-group wage gaps only. We go beyond the wage gap by proposing a framework for analysing inter-group gaps in multidimensional
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Education as a Positional Good? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-01-24 Alessa K. Durst
People care about their relative standing in society and therefore compare themselves to relevant others. Empirical findings suggest that there are concerns for relative standing for different goods and life domains such as income, cars, attractiveness, and supervisor’s praise. Even education has been mentioned as having a (partially) positional character. However, there has been only small consideration
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New Model for Measuring Job Quality: Developing an European Intrinsic Job Quality Index (EIJQI) Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-01-23 María Cascales Mira
This article deals with the development of a new model for measuring job quality based on the intrinsic components of work, an European Intrinsic Job Quality Index. The objective is measure job quality on the basis of the characteristics inherent to the labour activity itself, and not from its financial rewards. First, we review the existing literature on current measurement models and justify the
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Cross-Sectional Model-Building for Research on Subjective Well-Being: Gaining Clarity on Control Variables Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-01-22 David Bartram
Happiness/well-being researchers who use quantitative analysis often do not give persuasive reasons why particular variables should be included as controls in their cross-sectional models. One commonly sees notions of a “standard set” of controls, or the “usual suspects”, etc. These notions are not coherent and can lead to results that are significantly biased with respect to a genuine causal relationship
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Socio-economic Drivers of Food Security among Rural Households in Nigeria: Evidence from Smallholder Maize Farmers Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 Adebayo Isaiah Ogunniyi, Samuel Opeyemi Omotoso, Kabir Kayode Salman, Abiodun Olusola Omotayo, Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju, Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu
Issues relating to food availability, accessibility/affordability, and food utilization remain paramount among different stakeholders such as policymakers and academics. Using data from 250 maize farming households in Nigeria, the study used Foster–Greer–Thorbecke and probit regression model to investigate the factors determining households food security. The food insecurity measure shows that 23.2%
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Drivers of Youth Labour Market Integration Across European Regions Social Indicators Research (IF 1.874) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Rosario Scandurra, Ruggero Cefalo, Yuri Kazepov
Territorial disparities and youth labour markets have been often considered as separated themes, due to challenges in data availability. Comparative regional or sub-regional research on youth labour market integration (YLMI) have been therefore scarce. In this article, we address this gap by presenting a composite measure of YLMI that covers a wide range of indicators and sheds light on the EU territorial
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