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| Title: | | Life satisfaction in urban China: components and determinants  |
| Authors: | | Song, Lina Appleton, Simon |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 3443 |
| Abstract: | | Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership and political participation raise life satisfaction. People appear fairly satisfied with economic growth and low inflation, and this contributes to their overall life satisfaction. There is dissatisfaction over pollution, but this - like job insecurity - does not appear to impact on life satisfaction. |
| Subjects: | | Life satisfaction happiness economic growth unemployment China |
| JEL: | | I31 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008041625 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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