Format:
1 Online-Ressource (187 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783030585099
Series Statement:
Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being Ser
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Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1 What Constitutes a Good Life? -- Income -- Happiness -- Well-Being and Capabilities -- 2 Why This Book? -- Structure of the Book -- Why a New Dataset? -- Some Preliminary Methodological Comments -- 3 Is the Conventional Family Still the Cornerstone of Society? -- Which Family Types Are Found in Belgium? -- Are There Differences Between the Regions? -- Age and Family Type -- Well-being Involves Many Different Aspects -- 4 How Unequally Are Our Incomes Distributed? -- A Parade of Dwarves and Giants -- A Spoke in the Wheel? -- Inequality Measured -- 5 Who Is Poor in Our Society? -- Risk of Poverty -- Material Deprivation -- How Many Belgians Are Both on a Low Income and Materially Deprived? -- 6 How Healthy Are We? -- What Is Health? -- General Health -- Functional Limitations -- Chronic Diseases -- Emotional Well-Being -- Physical Well-Being -- Who Is Ill? -- Are Poorer People Sicker? -- How Sick Are the Elderly? -- Are the Flemish Healthier? -- 7 What Makes Us Sick? -- Lifestyle, Living Environment and Job Characteristics -- Lifestyle -- Living Environment -- Job Characteristics -- Emotional Well-Being -- The Shadow of the Past -- 8 Can People Afford Their Healthcare? -- The Use of Healthcare -- Financial Consequences of Illness -- Postponement of Care -- People with Chronic Illnesses -- 9 Do We Find the Job of Our Dreams? -- Who Works and Who Doesn't? -- Which Types of Jobs Are Carried Out? How Much Do People Work? -- The Job of My Dreams, an Unattainable Ideal? -- 10 What Do We Spend Our Money on? -- What Do the Consumption Patterns of Belgian Families Look Like? -- Expenditure Patterns per Income Quartile -- Expenditure Patterns by Level of Education -- 11 Do We Live Comfortably and in a Pleasant Environment? -- The Quality of Our Housing -- Tenants and Owners
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Elderly People and Young People -- 12 How Do We Spend Our Time? -- Time Use of Men and Women by Family Type -- Time Use of Men and Women by Level of Education -- An Insight into Families -- 13 Who Forms a Couple with Whom? -- How Did Partners First Meet? -- Like Seeks Like? -- Is Like-Seeks-Like Behaviour Age-Related? -- 14 How Do Partners Within Couples Spend Their Time? -- Time Use of Partners Across All Types of Couples -- Time Use of Working Couples with and Without Children Living at Home -- Time Use of Partners by Level of Education -- 15 What Do Partners in Couples Spend Their Money on? -- Expenditure Within Couples with and Without Children -- Expenditure Within Couples According to Total Expenditure -- Expenditure Within Couples According to Level of Education -- 16 Who Wears the Trousers? -- Distribution of Time and Money Between Partners -- Distribution of Time and Money in Relation to Relative Hourly Wage -- Distribution of Time and Money in Relation to Full Family Income -- Marriage Market -- Who Deserves Special Attention? -- 17 Is Life Harder for Single-Parent Families? -- Who Are the Parents in Single-Parent Families? -- Do Parents in Single-Parent Families Have Lower Levels of Well-Being? -- Which Dimensions of Well-Being Make the Difference? -- Are There Differences When It Comes to the Children? -- 18 Which Children Grow up in Poverty? -- Poverty Is Hard -- Health and Housing Quality -- How Much Do Parents Invest in Their Children? -- As Long as They're Happy ... -- 19 A Nice Retirement? -- How Many Older People Are There? -- The Situation of the Elderly -- Towards a Measure of Individual Well-being -- 20 Who Suffers from Cumulative Deprivation? -- How Much Cumulative Deprivation Is There in Belgium? -- Who Suffers from Cumulative Deprivation? -- 21 How Happy Are We? -- Happiness and Life Satisfaction
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What Makes Belgians Satisfied with Their Lives? -- (Dis)satisfaction with a Partial Aspect of Life -- 22 As Long as We're Happy ...? -- Personality and Life Satisfaction -- Level of Education and Expectations -- Poor but Happy -- 23 How Do We Measure Well-Being? -- An Example of the Alternative Approach -- Different Opinions on the Good Life: Willingness to Pay -- Equivalent Income -- 24 Who Has the Lowest Levels of Well-Being? -- How Do We Measure Willingness to Pay? -- Equivalent Incomes for Health and Housing -- 25 Conclusion -- Just Looking at Averages Can Be Misleading -- Income Is Not a Good Measure of Well-being -- Happiness Is Not a Good Measure of Well-being -- Well-being Is Best Measured in a Multidimensional Way -- References
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Capéau, Bart Well-Being in Belgium Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2020 ISBN 9783030585082
Language:
English
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