Well-being and inequality
Abstract: "An objective and a subjective approach to study well-being is introduced. The objective approach is particularly useful to compare the quality of life of given societies across time and space. Using the objective approach, we can identify strong differences of quality of life between European countries. In comparison to Western Europe, East European countries tend to have a rather low quality of life. Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium form a cluster of countries with high quality of life. The subjective approach to study well-being is useful for investigating the importance of dimensions of social inequality for people themselves. It is shown that most of the inequality dimensionstraditionally analysed by social scientists affect people's subjective well-being. However, it is also shown that some of the more materialistic inequality dimensions (such as income) tend to be less important in rich societies, while certain non-materialistic dimensions (such as famil
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Wohlbefinden und Ungleichheit
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 47 S.
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
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Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Bildung, Arbeit und Lebenschancen, Abteilung Ungleichheit und soziale Integration ; Bd. 2008-201
- Klassifikation
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Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen
- Schlagwort
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Europäische Union
Soziale Ungleichheit
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EU-Staaten
Soziale Ungleichheit
Einstellung
Meinung
Geschichte 2003
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Berlin
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2008
- Urheber
- Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-294084
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte
- Böhnke, Petra
- Kohler, Ulrich
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
Entstanden
- 2008
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