| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w11416 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 11416 |
| Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia | |
| David G. Blanchflower; Andrew J. Oswald | |
| 发表日期 | 2005-06-20 |
| 出版年 | 2005 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | According to the well-being measure known as the U.N. Human Development Index, Australia now ranks 3rd in the world and higher than all other English-speaking nations. This paper questions that assessment. It reviews work on the economics of happiness, considers implications for policymakers, and explores where Australia lies in international subjective well-being rankings. Using new data on approximately 50,000 randomly sampled individuals from 35 nations, the paper shows that Australians have some of the lowest levels of job satisfaction in the world. Moreover, among the sub-sample of English-speaking nations, where a common language should help subjective measures to be reliable, Australia performs poorly on a range of happiness indicators. The paper discusses this paradox. Our purpose is not to reject HDI methods, but rather to argue that much remains to be understood in this area. |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w11416 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/569059 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David G. Blanchflower,Andrew J. Oswald. Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia. 2005. |
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| w11416.pdf（318KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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