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Happiness and hardship : opportunity and insecurity in new market economies / Carol Graham, Stefano Pettinato.

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Author/Creator:
Graham, Carol, 1962-
Language:
English
Imprint:
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2002.
Format:
  • Book
  • xi, 174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Title Variation:
Happiness & hardship
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-165) and index.
Contents:
  • New approaches to old inequities : mobility, opportunity, and subjective well-being
  • Mobility, subjective well-being, and public perceptions : stuck in the tunnel or moving up the ladder?
  • Concepts and trends in income mobility
  • Happiness, markets, and democracy : Latin America, Russia, and the United States
  • Frustrated achievers : mobility trends and subjective well-being in Peru and Russia
  • Frustrated achievers in a global economy : challenges for policy and future research.
Publisher's Summary:
This text aims to shed new light on factors that can increase mobility and provide new opportunities for low-income people in developing economics, and possibly improve perceived, as well as actual, well-being.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Contributor:
Pettinato, Stefano.
Brookings Institution.
Subjects:
ISBN:
081570240X
0815702418
9780815702405
9780815702412

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