Economic Insecurity in Transition: A Primary Commodities Perspective

Ivļevs, Artjoms

doi:10.1111/roiw.12038

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“…Among other factors, unemployment status systematically lowers happiness in China, particularly among men. This is consistent with evidence from the international literature on happiness (Clark and Oswald, 1994;Helliwell, 2003;Blanchflower, Bell, Montagnoli and Moro, 2014) as well as the experience of transition economies where job insecurity has been identified as a significant determinant of happiness loss (Namazie and Sanfey, 2001;Hayo, 2007;Selezneva, 2011;Rodriguez-Pose and Maslauskaite, 2012;Ivlevs, 2014).…”

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Subjective well-being in China, 2005–2010: The role of relative income, gender, and location

Asadullah

Xiao

Yeoh

2018

China Economic Review

132

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Subjective well-being in China, 2005–2010: The role of relative income, gender, and location

Asadullah

Xiao

Yeoh

2018

China Economic Review

132

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Subjective Well-Being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location

2016

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“…There is not yet a consensus on the definition of economic insecurity, even if some common elements may be already drawn from the relevant literature. Insecurity can be understood as the anxiety produced by anticipating future economic losses and the awareness of not being capable of overcoming them (Osberg, , ; Osberg and Sharpe, , ; Hacker et al , ; Bossert and D'Ambrosio, , ; Berloffa and Modena, ; D'Ambrosio and Rohde, ; Ivlevs, ; Rohde et al , , ; Rohde and Tang, ). Starting from this idea, economic insecurity has implications for individual well‐being and should be analyzed beyond inequality and poverty.…”

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Measuring Economic Insecurity Using a Counting Approach. An Application to Three EU Countries

Romaguera-de-la-Cruz

2019

Review of Income and Wealth

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In this paper, we propose the use of a multidimensional approach to the measurement of economic insecurity in three European countries. We combine six different unidimensional indicators proxying the subjective and objective determinants of economic insecurity into a single index based on a counting approach method, which allows us to measure the incidence and the intensity of the phenomenon. Using longitudinal data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU‐SILC) from 2008 to 2016, we find that the incidence of insecurity falls as income grows, being significantly present in middle‐income households both in Spain and France but not in Sweden. Interestingly, in all three countries, the contribution of different dimensions to insecurity changes as household income grows, while for all income levels a higher education and being employed in a non‐fixed term contract are strongly related to a lower probability of being economically insecure.

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Economic Insecurity in Transition: A Primary Commodities Perspective

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Subjective well-being in China, 2005–2010: The role of relative income, gender, and location

Subjective well-being in China, 2005–2010: The role of relative income, gender, and location

Subjective Well-Being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location

Measuring Economic Insecurity Using a Counting Approach. An Application to Three EU Countries

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