Over-education and Job Satisfaction among New Graduates in China: A Gender Perspective
In this study, we used 2020 data from thePanel Study of Chinese University Students to explore the impact of over-education on new graduates ’ job satisfaction from a gender perspective. The results indicate that first, female graduates are more likely to be over-educated from an objective standpoint, while male graduates are more likely to think subjectively that they are over-educated. Second, over-educated female graduates have high er levels of job satisfaction than not over-educated ones, but this correlation is not significant for male graduates. Third, subjective awareness of over-education reduces levels of job s...
Source: Social Indicators Research - November 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Impact of Housing Demolition on Residents ’ Happiness: Empirical Evidence from China
This study examined the relationship between housing demolition and residents’ happiness using data from the China Family Panel Studies. Based on the OLS model and the staggered DID model, we found that housing demolition can significantly enhance Chinese residents’ happiness, especially for those residents with non-agricultural livelihood strategies before the demolition. However, this salient positive relationship was not observed for residents dominated by agricultural livelihood strategies. In addition, we also found a time effect in the relationship we are concerned about. That is, if demolition happened in the pa...
Source: Social Indicators Research - November 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Correction to: Migrants ’ Skills Wastage in the Labor Market: A Multidisciplinary Approach for Policy Formation
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Source: Social Indicators Research - November 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Digitalization in Vulnerable Populations: A Systematic Review in Latin America
AbstractThe present systematic review seeks to collect and analyze relevant academic approaches to the effects of digitalization on the populations that live in vulnerable contexts in Latin America with the purpose of examining to which extent the ongoing universalization of information and communication technologies has the potential to improve the lives of the most disadvantaged in this region. For this aim, both theoretical as well as empirical studies on these populations were considered, as long as they were from Latin America with the aim of listening to the voice of those involved, thus avoiding assigning understand...
Source: Social Indicators Research - October 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Status Inconsistency, Gender, and Health in Korean Young Adults: Separating Educational and Skill Mismatch
This study examines the relationship between status inconsistency and self-rated health in young adulthood. In defining status inconsistency, this study distinguishes between educational and skill mismatch. Moreover, given gendered workplace experiences, potential gender heterogeneity in the relationship is examined. Using nationally representative data from the Youth Panel (N = 2,407), fixed effect (FE) models are estimated to account for individual-level heterogeneity. FE estimates suggest that overeducation and over-skilling are negatively associated with self-rated health even after controlling time-constant, unobs...
Source: Social Indicators Research - October 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Job Satisfaction and the ‘Great Resignation’: An Exploratory Machine Learning Analysis
This study examines the determinants of job satisfaction using a large survey dataset, namely the LISS Work and Schooling module on an extensive sample of persons from the Netherlands. To handle these big data, machine learning models based on binary recursive partitioning algorithms are employed. Particularly, sequential and randomized tree-based techniques are used for prediction and clustering purposes. In order to interpret the results, the study calculates the sizes and directions of the effects of model features using computations based on the concept of Shapley value in cooperative game theory. The findings suggest ...
Source: Social Indicators Research - October 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Bad Jobs on the Rise? Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Low-Paid Work in Hong Kong, 1986 –2016
AbstractLow-paid employment is a global challenge that has become more acute in recent years. While previous research has examined the micro and macro factors associated with low-paid work, the temporal dynamics of this phenomenon have received little attention. We address this gap in the literature by disentangling the effects of age, period, and cohort on low-paid work and documenting their demographic heterogeneity. Using repeated cross-sectional survey data derived from the 1986 –2016 Population Census and By-census, we employ a novel age-period-cohort approach (HAPC-CCREM) to study the temporal patterns of low-paid ...
Source: Social Indicators Research - October 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Cultural Intolerance, in Practice: Social Variation in Food and Drink Avoidances in Italy, 2003 –2016
AbstractSociological literature on cultural practices seeking to understand the social differentiation of taste pays limited attention to what people avoid consuming, despite its potential as a strategic indicator of taste. Avoidance has special relevance for the understanding of eating and drinking practices which are often characterized by exclusion of items for health, hedonic, reputational, or spiritual reasons. Making use of rich data on twenty-three items commonly consumed by Italian adults, this paper investigates how avoidances —i.e. what people claimnever to eat or drink —are clustered, socially patterned and ...
Source: Social Indicators Research - October 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Spatial Analysis to Investigate the Relationship Between Tourism and Wellbeing in Italy
AbstractThe level and variety of services offered by tourist destinations are intricately linked to the overall health and condition of its area. We would like to investigate the existence of a possible connection between tourism and the social, economic, and environmental well-being of a territory. The tourism industry can improve the general well-being of a specific area by promoting consumption, reducing the income gap, and improving infrastructures. However, the well-being of the territory through enhancing the specific features of the local context and its factors of excellence can also influence tourism.In this conte...
Source: Social Indicators Research - October 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Status Inconsistency, Gender, and Health in Korean Young Adults: Separating Educational and Skill Mismatch
This study examines the relationship between status inconsistency and self-rated health in young adulthood. In defining status inconsistency, this study distinguishes between educational and skill mismatch. Moreover, given gendered workplace experiences, potential gender heterogeneity in the relationship is examined. Using nationally representative data from the Youth Panel (N = 2,407), fixed effect (FE) models are estimated to account for individual-level heterogeneity. FE estimates suggest that overeducation and over-skilling are negatively associated with self-rated health even after controlling time-constant, unobs...
Source: Social Indicators Research - October 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Correction: A VEA Benefit-of-the-Doubt Model for the HDI
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Source: Social Indicators Research - October 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Survey-based Women Empowerment Index for Afghanistan (SWEI-A): An Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses
This study aimed to develop a country-specific index to measure women empowerment among married women aged 15 –49 years in Afghanistan. The data from the 2015 Afghanistan demographic health survey (ADHS) was used to develop the index. The data on 26 variables across eight hypothesized domains related to women empowerment were used in EFA to probe the underlying domains in the data. CFA examined the struct ural validity of hypothesized factors in EFA. Four indicators were dropped during the analysis either due to the low and significantly different loading on one factor as compared to other indicators or due to overlap wi...
Source: Social Indicators Research - October 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Values in Crisis: Societal Value Change under Existential Insecurity
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on societies, with possible consequences for their fundamental values. Inglehart ’s revised modernization theory links societal values to the underlying subjective sense of existential security in a given society (scarcity hypothesis), while also claiming that influences on values diminish once individuals reach adulthood (socialization hypothesis). An acute existential crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic offers a rare opportunity to test these assumptions. We analyze data from representative surveys conducted in Japan shortly before and after the onset of the pan...
Source: Social Indicators Research - October 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Quality of Life, Well-Being and the Human Development Index: A Media Narrative for the Developed World?
AbstractThe Human Development Index (HDI) produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been in existence since 1990. In its annual Human Development Reports (HDRs) the UNDP provides rankings of countries based on the HDI, and the idea is that these will help bring about positive change as countries compare their performance in the rankings with what they see as their peers. The HDRs are widely reported in the media, and previous research has suggested that the extent of newspaper reporting of the HDI (i.e. number of articles) is greater for those countries at the bottom and top end of the rankings. Howev...
Source: Social Indicators Research - October 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
