The Variable Selection Problem in the Three Worlds of Welfare LiteratureSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 144 - Trang 625-646 - 2019
Erdem Yörük, İbrahim Öker, Kerem Yıldırım, Burcu Yakut-Çakar
Based on a quantitative meta-analysis of empirical studies, this article points out a significant flaw in the Three Worlds of Welfare literature, the “variable selection problem.” Compiling, classifying, and quantitatively analysing all variables that have been employed in this literature, the article shows first that variable selection has depended more on case selection than on theory. Scholars ...... hiện toàn bộ
A Composite Indicator to Assess Sustainability of Agriculture in European Union CountriesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 163 - Trang 1003-1036 - 2022
Alessandro Magrini, Francesca Giambona
Few studies have been conducted to assess agricultural sustainability in the European Union (EU), and all of them fail to provide a holistic view of sustainability in a relevant temporal horizon that could effectively support the design of policies. In this paper, a composite indicator is constructed based on the geometric aggregation of 12 basic indicators measured yearly in the period 2004–2020 ...... hiện toàn bộ
Conditions for Facilitation by Voluntary Organizations to Enhance Social Cohesion in ChinaSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 148 - Trang 173-187 - 2019
Chau-kiu Cheung, T. Wing Lo, Suk-ching Liu
Clarifying conditions for advancing volunteers’ cohesion toward society (i.e., social cohesion), which means attachment to and benefiting society, is relevant to the mission of voluntary organizations. Such clarification is necessary in face of contradictory views between the reinforcement and empowerment models. Specifically, the reinforcement model envisions that organizational facilitation cont...... hiện toàn bộ
How Poor is Poor? A novel look at multidimensional poverty in the UKSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 149 - Trang 833-859 - 2020
Deniz Sevinc
The integrated nature of well-being produces difficulty in evaluating poverty levels and one issue is the neglected of human life aspects, multiple feedback loops, and an over-emphasis on income. In the light of current structural changes a multidimensional poverty measure (MPI), which includes some of those missing dimensions, closely related to the well-being of individuals, is constructed in th...... hiện toàn bộ
Rurality and well-being during the middle years of lifeSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 24 - Trang 253-268 - 1991
Donald M. Crider, Fern K. Willits, Conrad L. Kanagy
Popular stereotypes and theorizing by social scientists suggest that rural people are more satisfied with their communities and happier with their life situations than are their nonrural counterparts. This enhanced well-being is believed to result at least partly from the presence of kinship and friendship ties in the local community and the adherence to traditional religious beliefs. Data from a ...... hiện toàn bộ
ErratumSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 80 Số 1 - Trang 265-265 - 2007
Anja Riitta Lahikainen, Merle Taimalu, Piia Korhonen, Inger Kraav
Perceptual indicators of family well-beingSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 12 - Trang 417-438 - 1983
Kathryn D. Rettig, Margaret M. Bubolz
A resource exchange theory for the development of perceptual indicators of quality of family life is presented with empirical evidence to test the theory. The theory specifies six classes of resources: love, status, services, information, goods and money, as necessary to maintain some level of life quality. The first three are the most dependent on the particular people involved in the exchange re...... hiện toàn bộ
Ethnic Diversity and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do Institutions Reduce the Noise?Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 145 - Trang 1033-1062 - 2019
Kazeem B. Ajide, Olorunfemi Y. Alimi, Simplice A. Asongu
Studies on the causes of income differences between the rich and the poor have received an extensive attention in the inequality empirics. While ethnic diversity has also been identified as one of the fundamental causes of income inequality, the role of institutions as a mediating factor in the ethnicity-inequality nexus has not received the scholarly attention it deserves. To this end, this study...... hiện toàn bộ