A Proposal for Retirement Risk Measurement Based on Subjective Assessment of Income: An Empirical Study
AbstractWe propose a novel approach to retirement risk and its measurement. We define retirement risk as a shortfall of financial resources to meet the needs of a retiree ’s household, which is different from the inability to maintain a standard of living in retirement. Taking a subjective approach to risk, we operationalise it using theLeyden approach to estimate the minimum satisfactory income for a retiree household and compare it to the pension value. Using a logistic regression model, we estimate the effect of pension value and household and reference person characteristics. The retirement risk level strongly depend...
Source: Social Indicators Research - January 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Effect of Social Cohesion on Subjective Individual Quality of Life in European Countries
This study aims to analyse the effect of social cohesion considered as a characteristic of a country on subjective quality of life. In addition, we also tested the moderating effect of social cohesion on the relationship between income and placement in society with quality of life. To test our hypotheses we estimated a multilevel regression model. First, we estimated the null model, which showed that almost a quarter of the variance in quality of life is located at country level. Second, we included in the model all the level-1 predictors. This model highlighted that self-evaluated position on the social ladder has a large...
Source: Social Indicators Research - January 24, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Spatial Inequality in Socio-economic Development in Bangladesh: An Analysis
This study aims to analyze the disparities in socio-economic development in the North-Western region of Bangladesh from a micro-spatial perspective, as well as to uncover the underlying factors that generate disparities. Both quantitative and qualitative methodologies were used in this study. Secondary data from Government organizations was compiled for 67 spatial units (upazila) to regionalize the study area based on 22 indicators from seven socio-economic sectors, and to identify the underlying factors, a structured questionnaire survey was conducted, followed by a literature review, group discussion, interviews, and fie...
Source: Social Indicators Research - January 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Explaining the Homelessness Phenomenon in Familistic Mediterranean Societies: A New Analytical Framework
This article studies the importance of the loss of family ties and its symbolic burden in the narrative of homeless people in familistic societies. The family is the main reason why poverty does not directly lead to social exclusion in southern European countries. However, the economic crises of the last two decades have weakened the ability of the family to protect its members. The new forms of poverty that imply processes of individualized social exclusion that lead to homelessness in southern Europe can be understood as a consequence of the overload currently suffered by families in those countries due to the recent eco...
Source: Social Indicators Research - January 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Unveiling a Positive Association Between Subjective Socioeconomic Status and Government Work Evaluation
This study contributes valuable insights into comprehending the subjectivity of government work evaluation comprehensively, providing a robust basis for future policy formulation and enhanced societal interactions. (Source: Social Indicators Research)
Source: Social Indicators Research - January 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Challenges for Inclusive Organizational Behavior (IOB) in Terms of Supporting the Employment of People with Disabilities by Enhancing Remote Working
AbstractPeople with disabilities are at a higher risk of loss of work, salary, independence, and thus economic self-sufficiency. The research focuses on the possibilities of implementing the inclusive organizational behavior (IOB) concept in terms of increasing employment of people with disabilities by increasing the scope of remote working for people from this group. The research concerns two aspects related to the challenges for IOB in this area: examining the factors on the side of the employee with special emphasis on features that are important from the perspective of performing remote work, and showing the significan...
Source: Social Indicators Research - January 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Economic Growth and Human Well-being in India: Evidence through adjusted GDP measure
AbstractThe outcome of economic growth is visualised as the well-being of citizens or human well-being (HWB). However, it has been a great challenge to measure HWB. Though there are known reasons for considering GDP and its growth as a measure of overall development and progress of nations, yet mostly it is being used as a gospel indicator to compare nations and design appropriate policies. This paper is an effort to develop a comprehensive adjusted GDP to measure HWB through secondary data for thirty years (1990–91 to 2019–20) in India. We make thirty-five adjustments to net national income (NNI) to compute the adj...
Source: Social Indicators Research - January 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Challenges for Inclusive Organizational Behavior (IOB) in Terms of Supporting the Employment of People with Disabilities by Enhancing Remote Working
AbstractPeople with disabilities are at a higher risk of loss of work, salary, independence, and thus economic self-sufficiency. The research focuses on the possibilities of implementing the inclusive organizational behavior (IOB) concept in terms of increasing employment of people with disabilities by increasing the scope of remote working for people from this group. The research concerns two aspects related to the challenges for IOB in this area: examining the factors on the side of the employee with special emphasis on features that are important from the perspective of performing remote work, and showing the significan...
Source: Social Indicators Research - January 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Economic Growth and Human Well-being in India: Evidence through adjusted GDP measure
AbstractThe outcome of economic growth is visualised as the well-being of citizens or human well-being (HWB). However, it has been a great challenge to measure HWB. Though there are known reasons for considering GDP and its growth as a measure of overall development and progress of nations, yet mostly it is being used as a gospel indicator to compare nations and design appropriate policies. This paper is an effort to develop a comprehensive adjusted GDP to measure HWB through secondary data for thirty years (1990–91 to 2019–20) in India. We make thirty-five adjustments to net national income (NNI) to compute the adj...
Source: Social Indicators Research - January 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A European Unemployment Benefit to Protect Atypical Workers?
AbstractThis paper evaluates the potential of a common unemployment insurance scheme for the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU-UI) to improve income protection of atypical workers, namely those in part-time and temporary contracts. Our approach relies on simulating entitlements to national unemployment insurance and the EMU-UI to assess their effects on the household disposable income of atypical workers in the event of unemployment. Our results show that the introduction of an EMU-UI would reduce coverage gaps and increase net replacement rates, especially for atypical workers, and would protect a large share of the workfo...
Source: Social Indicators Research - January 13, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
