Does Financial Inclusion and Human Development Progress Sustainably? Evidence from Emerging Countries
This study will guide policy makers to make strategic choices related to their investment in health and education to improve social development sustainably leading to better and sustained financial inclusion. Data related to 18 emerging countries (as given in MSCI report) for the time 2004 to 2018 was retrieved and Fixed Effect Panel Quantile (FPQR) was employed to study the nexus of human development (education, health), financial inclusion and carbon emissions. Each of the constructs related to financial inclusion, human development, health, and education were defined by appropriate variable for which data was available ...
Source: Social Indicators Research - November 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Beyond Continuous versus Categorical Dichotomy: Uncovering Latent Structure of Non-electoral Political Participation Using Zero-Inflated Models
AbstractWhile modeling political participation as a latent variable, researchers usually choose whether to conceptualize and model participation as a latent continuous or latent categorical variable. When participation is modeled as a continuous variable, factor analytic and item-response theory models are used. When modeled as a categorical variable, latent class analysis is employed. However, both conceptualizations and modeling approaches rest upon very strong assumptions. In the continuous case, all subjects are assumed to come from the same homogenous population; in the categorical case, we assume that no quantitative...
Source: Social Indicators Research - November 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Correction: Values in Crisis: Societal Value Change under Existential Insecurity
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Source: Social Indicators Research - November 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Economic Performance, Happiness, and Sustainable Development in OECD Countries
AbstractEconomic progress has pushed human beings to pay greater attention on their happiness, and various indicators to measure it have been created with the OECD ’s Better Life Index one of the most famous. This research uses the entropy method to divide the original 20 items of the Better Life Index into four categories (economic, environmental, social, and well-being). The Sustainable Development Goals promoted by the United Nations in recent years also include the same four aspects. Therefore, this study evaluates the efficiency performance of the 34 OECD member countries under these factors from 2013 to 2017 and an...
Source: Social Indicators Research - November 12, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Income Inequality, Human Capital and Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa
AbstractThis paper aligns with Sustainable Development Goal 10 to investigate the role of quality institutions in the human capital-income inequality nexus. It uses an unbalanced panel data on the Gini index (measure of income inequality), human capital index and institutional quality index on 46 sub-Saharan African countries from 2010 to 2019. The Driscoll and Kraay (Rev Econ Stat 80:549 –560, 1998) panel spatial correlation consistent (PSCC) and Firpo et al. (Unconditional quantile regressions. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper, No. 339, pp 1 –54, 2007.https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA6822) bootstrap unco...
Source: Social Indicators Research - November 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Moderating Work and Leisure: The Relationship between the Work-Leisure Interface and Satisfaction with Work-Leisure Balance
This study not only deepens the understanding of the work-leisure relationship but also provides some management suggestions for enterprise management and employees’ healthy living. (Source: Social Indicators Research)
Source: Social Indicators Research - November 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Study of Citizen Satisfaction in Rural Versus Urban Areas in Public Services: Perspective of a Multi-group Analysis
This study proposes a comparative analysis between urban and rural areas concerning the magnitude or intensity with which the constructs are related to expected quality-perceived quality-perceived value as influencing aspects in the level of satisfaction and citizen loyalty in three dimensions: Territorial planning and roads; provision of municipal services and environmental management. This research used the PLS software applying the ACSI model in the 5-hypothesis approach. A questionnaire was delivered to a sample population of 428 citizens in the rural area of Tenguel and 521 citizens in the urban area of Tarqui in the ...
Source: Social Indicators Research - November 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Is the Genuine Progress Indicator a Better Policy Goal for Sustainable Development? An Empirical Study Based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve
This study adopted the genuine progress indicator (GPI) method to measure the quality of economic development of 29 provinces in China from 1979 to 2018. Next, under the empirical framework of the environmental Kuznets curve, we used a system-generalized method of moments estimation and the panel auto-regressive distributed lag model to estimate the short-term and long-term relationships between regional carbon emissions and GPI, respectively, and compare the results to that of the calculation based on GDP. The study found that: (1) Carbon dioxide has an “inverted U-shaped” relationship with both GDP and GPI; (2) When ...
Source: Social Indicators Research - November 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Misperceptions, Income Positions, and Attitudes Toward EU Inequality: A Cross-Country Survey Experiment
AbstractWe examine the relationship between misperceptions, income positions, and attitudes toward inequality at the supranational level of the EU. Conducting surveys in four EU member states (Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden), we confirm that Europeans misperceive their own income position in the EU. Once we account for these misperceptions, we find for all four countries that the lower their income rank, the more citizens assess EU income differences as unjust and are supportive of an EU minimum wage. When we inform a randomized subsample about their misperceived EU income position, those who learn that they are richer...
Source: Social Indicators Research - November 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Occupation –Education Mismatch of Immigrant Women in Europe
AbstractAgainst the background of continuing gains in female education and labour market participation and rising migration, we investigate whether women work in occupations which match their educational qualifications and whether migrant women face double penalty in being overqualified for their jobs. Using the data from the European Social Survey covering 2002 –2020 with detailed information about occupation and educational attainment, we show that migrant women are significantly more likely to be overqualified in their jobs relative to native women. We explore the role of individual, institutional and workplace factor...
Source: Social Indicators Research - November 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Nexus Between Resettlement and Quality of Life of Mining-Induced Migrants in Ghana: A PLS –SEM Approach
AbstractGiven the rapid development projects in developing economies in mining, urban renewal, dams, and transportation sector that require displacement and resettlement of people or communities, project-induced migrants have become a societal group that interests researchers and practitioners. Nevertheless, the nexus between resettlement housing quality and the quality of life of the project-induced migrants are relatively new. Using a recent survey in Ellembelle, Ghana, this paper examines such connections through Partial least squares path modeling. The results indicate the impact of the community environment is the hig...
Source: Social Indicators Research - November 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Economic Return to Labour Market Experience of Immigrants in Sweden
This study focuses on the value that employers assign to immigrants ’ labour market experience, from both before and after immigration, using a surveyed representative sample of the Swedish immigrant and native populations. A novel feature of the survey is that it contains a measure of immigrants’ actual years of labour market experience, including about work be fore immigration. Previous research has, in contrast, relied on so-called potential measures, risking bias in the analyses. For immigrants, results show that only pre-immigration labour market experience from the Nordic countries has a positive return. Results ...
Source: Social Indicators Research - November 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Overeducation and Social Integration Among Highly Educated Migrant Workers in China
This study empirically analyzed the impacts of overeducation on social integration among highly educated migrant workers and examined the heterogeneity of these impacts across migrants with different socio-demographic characteristics, based on the data from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS) 2017. Logit regression was used to estimate the likelihood of overeducation, and propensity score matching was employed to construct the comparable treatment and control groups. The results imply that overeducation has adverse effects on the social integration of migrant workers with higher education, and these effects vary acros...
Source: Social Indicators Research - November 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
