2011-03-26 papers

on Economics of Happiness

Issue of 2011‒03‒26
two papers chosen by

Job Satisfaction in a Developing Country: Exploring the Work-Family Rivalry By Luis Fernando Gamboa; Andrés García-Suaza; Mauricio Rodríguez-Acosta
A Human Development Index at the Household Level By Kenneth Harttgen; Stephan Klasen

Job Satisfaction in a Developing Country: Exploring the Work-Family Rivalry

By:	Luis Fernando Gamboa; Andrés García-Suaza; Mauricio Rodríguez-Acosta
Abstract:	This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between familiar duties and job satisfaction in a developing country by using four different indexes. This analysis includes objective measures and subjective measures from data gathered in Colombia. In contrast to previous literature, objective measures are included through the interactive effects between the family responsibilities variables and the gender. Subjective measures are evaluated using the job-family compatibility perception. Our findings show that women tend to be less satisfied at work as the number of children increases, while men are more prone to satisfaction at work when they are single thus showing the importance given to the use of their own time. It also reveals that jobfamily compatibility is an important determinant of job satisfaction.
Date:	2011–02–28
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:col:000092:008171&r=hap

A Human Development Index at the Household Level

By:	Kenneth Harttgen (Georg-August-University Göttingen); Stephan Klasen (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
Abstract:	One of the most serious weaknesses of the human development index (HDI) is does not take into account the distribution of human development within a country. All previous attempts to capture inequality in the HDI have also used aggregate information and there exists no HDI at the household level. We provide a method for proxying the HDI at the household level. This allows the analysis of the HDI by any kind of population subgroups and by household socioeconomic characteristics as well as to apply any kind of inequality measure across population subgroups and over time. We illustrate our approach for 15 developing countries. Inequality in the HDI is stunningly large for some countries, driven mostly by very high inequality in the education and income components of the HDI. The inequality in human development is larger than previously reported which is largely due to the new procedures for calculating the HDI used in the 2010 Human Development Report. Inequality in the HDI is largest in poorer countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Keywords:	Human Development Index; Income Inequality; Differential Mortality; Inequality in Education
Date:	2011–03–17
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:got:gotcrc:075&r=hap

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