Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): Filomena Maggino

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Volume 174, issue 3, 2024

Bases for the Construction of the Social Cohesion Index in the Indigenous Communities of Michoacán pp. 797-815

Vicente González Hidalgo, Veronica Marlene Correa Flores, Mauricio González-Avilés and Viridiana Nativitas Montoya

Where You Sit Is Where You Stand: Perceived (In)Equality and Demand for Democracy in Africa pp. 817-836

Thomas Isbell

Exploring Domains of Quality-of-Life with Vulnerable Young People in Bogotá: A Capability Approach Perspective pp. 837-858

Juan Fernando Bucheli

Surnames in Local Newspapers and Social Mobility pp. 859-879

Massimo Baldini and Andrea Barigazzi

Machine Learning-Facilitated Policy Intensity Analysis: A Proposed Procedure and Its Application pp. 881-904

Su Xie, Hang Xiong, Linmei Shang and Yong Bao

An Evaluation of the Impact of the Pension System on Income Inequality: USA, UK, Netherlands, Italy and Türkiye pp. 905-931

Can Verberi and Muhittin Kaplan

Social Determinants of Life Expectancy at Birth in the City of Madrid: A Pre-pandemic Analysis pp. 933-943

David González Casas, Ana Dorado Barbé and José Luis Gálvez Nieto

Flexibility Stigma Across Europe: How National Contexts can Shift the Extent to which Flexible Workers are Stigmatised pp. 945-965

Heejung Chung and Hyojin Seo

SDG Impact Index with Double Materiality Perspective: Evidence from OECD Commercial Bank Industry pp. 967-1006

Guler Aras, Ozlem Kutlu Furtuna and Evrim Hacioglu Kazak

Social Capital and Health in Developing Countries: The Case of Indonesia pp. 1007-1024

Younoh Kim and Vlad Radoias

Are Cities Decisive for Life Satisfaction? A Structural Equation Model for the European Population pp. 1025-1051

Catalina Nicolás-Martínez, María Concepción Pérez-Cárceles, Prudencio José Riquelme-Perea and Carmen María Verde-Martín

Economic Disparities, Life Events, and the Gender Mental Health Gap pp. 1053-1100

Thi Thao Nguyen, Kim Huong Nguyen and Nicholas Rohde

An Extended Family Perspective on Intergenerational Human Capital Transmission in China pp. 1101-1139

Wei Zou and Ruiqi Ma

Correction: Constructing Social Vulnerability Indexes with Increased Data and Machine Learning Highlight the Importance of Wealth Across Global Contexts pp. 1141-1142

Yuan Zhao, Ronak Paul, Sean Reid, Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Chris Wolfe, Yan Zhang and Rumi Chunara

Volume 174, issue 2, 2024

Inequality Belief Systems: What They Look Like, How to Study Them, and Why They Matter pp. 445-472

Arturo Bertero, Gonzalo Franetovic and Jonathan J. B. Mijs

Model-Based Estimation of Small Area Dissimilarity Indexes: An Application to Sex Occupational Segregation in Spain pp. 473-501

María Bugallo, Domingo Morales, María Dolores Esteban and Maria Chiara Pagliarella

How does Migration Impact Individuals’ Public Safety Perceptions? Evidence from China pp. 503-524

Long Qian, Lixian Liu, Hongbo Liu and Xinjie Shi

Social Exclusion Among Older Adults: A Multilevel Analysis for 10 European Countries pp. 525-551

Fernanda Juma and Ana Fernández-Sainz

Re-Examining the Direction of the Relationship Between Optimism and Subjective Well-Being pp. 553-567

Mohsen Joshanloo

Measurement on Health Capital of Workforce: Evidence from China pp. 569-587

Tao Bu, Rui Ma, Yueheng Wang, Xinyuan Wang, Daisheng Tang and Liyuan Deng

Discretion and Obligation Across Volunteering and Caring: Shining Light on Non-Voluntary Carers in the Retiring Encore Segment pp. 589-610

John Rodwell, Dianne Johnson and Lara Thynne

Spatial, Temporal, and Explanatory Analyses of Urban Crime pp. 611-629

Daniela Cueva and Pablo Cabrera-Barona

Pyramid-Shaped Indicators: Evaluating the Robustness of Scheme Comparisons Under Weight Uncertainty pp. 631-656

Li-zhu Yue, Jia-wei Zhang and Yue Lv

An Untapped Instrument in the Fight Against Poverty: The Impacts of Financial Literacy on Poverty Worldwide pp. 657-695

Ngoc Duc Lang, Ha Mai Tran, Giang Tra Nguyen and Duc Hong Vo

Adapting and Validating a Survey to Assess Host Communities Support for Migration pp. 697-720

Jhon G. Botello, Katherine Palacio, Erika Frydenlund, Humberto Llinás and Jose J. Padilla

The GDL Vulnerability Index (GVI) pp. 721-741

Jeroen Smits and Janine Huisman

China’s Rural Revitalization Strategy: Sustainable Development, Welfare, and Poverty Alleviation pp. 743-767

Wanli Ma and Liangze Mu

Persistence of Overeducation Among Young Workers and Business Cycle pp. 769-793

Jose Arranz and Carlos García-Serrano

Correction: Challenges for Inclusive Organizational Behavior (IOB) in Terms of Supporting the Employment of People with Disabilities by Enhancing Remote Working pp. 795-795

Bożena Frączek

Volume 174, issue 1, 2024

Towards the Next Fifty Years of Social Indicators Research: Some Guidance for Authors pp. 1-17

David Bartram, Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo, Eileen Avery, Anthony Bardo, Enrico Di Bella, Martin Binder, Ferdi Botha, Sandra Fachelli, Andrea Gatto, Jintao Lu, Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn, Angeles Sanchez and Massimiliano Tani

Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Brazil: Trends and Patterns pp. 19-45

Thiago Henrique Leite and Marina Da Cunha

Economic Communication: The Influence of High-Speed Rail on Urban-Rural Income Inequality in China pp. 47-73

Yu Jia, Yunqian Wang, Piao Li and Shuang Gao

Organizational Benefits of Commuting Support: The Impact of Flexible Working Hours on Employees’ OCB through Commuting Control pp. 75-89

Zhiyi Gan, Jinhua Gan, Zhiqing E. Zhou and Hanying Tang

Regional Multidimensional Attitudes Towards Immigration: Evidence from the European Social Survey Using Small Area Estimation pp. 91-121

Angelo Moretti and Anisa Ahmed

Measuring Wellbeing Across Culture and Context – are we Getting it Right? Evaluating the Variation in Wellbeing Conceptualisations Throughout the World pp. 123-155

Kate Sollis, Nicholas Biddle, Herdiyan Maulana, Mandy Yap and Paul Campbell

Low Income, Ill-being, and Gender Inequality: Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Gendered Risk of Suffering Among the Poor pp. 157-220

Satoshi Araki and Francisco Olivos

Foreign Direct Investment, Income Inequality and Pollution Reduction: Policy Trilemma for India pp. 221-248

Soumen Rej, Barnali Nag and Md. Emran Hossain

Bullying Among Pupils at School and a Country’s Educational System: An Efficiency Evaluation of Educational Performance in Europe by Means of an Extended Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 249-280

Kouhei Kikuchi, Soushi Suzuki and Peter Nijkamp

Relative Standing and Political Participation pp. 281-311

Tina Fransman and Marisa Fintel

Absolute Poverty Measurement with Minimum Food Needs: A New Inverse Method for Advanced Economies pp. 313-351

Balint Menyhert

The impact of social media use on the relationship between social isolation and connectedness during COVID-19 in Hong Kong pp. 353-366

Tina L. Rochelle and L. M. Chan

Nexus Between Financial Inclusion, Digital Inclusion and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Developing Economies pp. 367-408

R. V. Naveenan, Chee Liew and Ploypailin Kijkasiwat

Democracy and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Updated Global Data pp. 409-419

Patrick Flavin

The Relationship Between Human Development Indicators and Technology Spillover with Environmental Quality: Evidence from Panel ARDL Model for D8 Countries pp. 421-444

Abolfazl Shahabadi and Maryam Heidarian

Volume 173, issue 3, 2024

The Gender Well-Being Gap pp. 1-45

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

Exploring the Dynamics of the Elderly Population and Economic Growth: A Comparative Analysis Across Continents pp. 543-568

Thaveesha Jayawardhana, Ruwan Jayathilaka, Sachini Anuththara, Thamasha Nimnadi, Ridhmi Karadanaarachchi and Kethaka Galappaththi

Were Parents Synchronizing Their Home-Based Working Arrangements During the COVID-19 Pandemic? pp. 569-588

Ilyar Heydari Barardehi and Anna Kurowska

Populist Attitudes, Subjective Social Status, and Resentment in Italy pp. 589-606

Giacomo Melli and Stefani Scherer

Natural Resources Abundance and Human Well-Being: the Role of Institutional Quality pp. 607-644

Anis Omri and Montassar Kahia

The Impact of Socio-Economic Conditions on Individuals’ Health: Development of an Index and Examination of its Association with Three of the Most Frequently Registered Diseases in Lazio Region of Italy pp. 691-708

Ilaria Valentini, Mario Cesare Nurchis, Gerardo Altamura, Americo Cicchetti, Gianfranco Damiani and Giuseppe Arbia

Research on the Spatial and Temporal Patterns and Formation Mechanisms of Intergenerational Health Mobility in China pp. 709-740

Jiao Lu, Yang Yang and Yang Gao

Asymmetric Impact of Pandemic Uncertainty on Drug Crimes: A Comparative Analysis pp. 741-763

Xile Hui, Zeeshan Rasool, Sajid Ali and Shaukat Hussain Bhatti

Preparing Quality of Life Surveys Versus Using Information for Sustainable Development: The Example of Polish Cities pp. 765-782

Mariusz J. Ligarski and Tomasz Owczarek

A Novel Approach for Multispatial and Multitemporal Analysis of Composite Indicators pp. 783-800

Matheus Pereira Libório, Elisa Fusco, Alexandre Magno Alves Diniz, Oséias da Silva Martinuci and Petr Iakovlevitch Ekel

Correction to: A Novel Approach for Multispatial and Multitemporal Analysis of Composite Indicators pp. 801-801

Matheus Pereira Libório, Elisa Fusco, Alexandre Magno Alves Diniz, Oséias da Silva Martinuci and Petr Iakovlevitch Ekel

How Selective Mobility, Social and Ecological Influence may Impact Geographic Variations in Life Satisfaction Scores: An Australian Longitudinal Study pp. 803-826

Phil Lignier, Diane Jarvis, Daniel Grainger and Taha Chaiechi

Research on the Measurement and Effects of Urban–Rural Integration and Modernization in National Central Cities pp. 827-866

Xinggu Liu, Youxi Luo, Yifan Zhu and Linyi Guo

Measuring Political Institutions in the Long Run: A Latent Variable Analysis of Political Regimes, 1810–2018 pp. 867-914

Nuno Garoupa and Rok Spruk

The Influence of Rating Scales and Question Attributes on the Validity and Reliability of Generalized Trust Scales pp. 915-940

Blaine G. Robbins

Volume 173, issue 2, 2024

Uncovering Complexities in Horizontal Inequality: A Novel Decomposition of the Gini Index pp. 351-376

Federico Attili

The 2015 Refugee Crisis and Institutional Trust in European Countries pp. 377-396

Athina Economou and Christos Kollias

Household Non-mortgage Debt and Depression in Older Adults in 22 Countries: What is the Role of Social Norms, Institutions and Macroeconomic Conditions? pp. 397-420

Aapo Hiilamo

A Composite Indicator of Polyvictimisation Through the Lens of the Ecological Model in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 421-438

Micaela Arcaio and Anna Maria Parroco

I Would Like to but I Cannot: What Influences the Involuntariness of Part-Time Employment in Italy pp. 439-473

Gianluca Busilacchi, Giovanni Gallo and Matteo Luppi

Modelling and Measuring Local Community Engagement (LCE) pp. 475-498

Cosimo Talò

Regional Socioeconomic Assessments with a Genetic Algorithm: An Application on Income Inequality Across Municipalities pp. 499-521

Elisa Aracil, Elena Maria Diaz, Gonzalo Gómez-Bengoechea, Rosalía Mota and David Roch-Dupré

Association Between Age and Subjective Economic Hardship Across the Income Distribution in Europe pp. 523-542

Ilari Ilmakunnas, Joonas Uotinen and Maria Vaalavuo

Volume 173, issue 1, 2024

Data science for measuring regional competitiveness pp. 1-7

Leonardo S. Alaimo, Paola Annoni, Pierpaolo D’Urso and Livia Giovanni

Measuring Competitiveness at NUTS3 Level and Territorial Partitioning of the Italian Provinces pp. 9-51

Pierpaolo D’Urso, Livia De Giovanni, Francesca G. M. Sica and Vincenzina Vitale

Measuring Competitiveness: A Composite Indicator for Italian Municipalities pp. 53-82

Anna Scaccabarozzi, Matteo Mazziotta and Annamaria Bianchi

Regional Competitiveness: A Structural-Based Topic Analysis on Recent Literature pp. 83-108

Maria Gabriella Grassia, Marina Marino, Rocco Mazza, Michelangelo Misuraca, Emma Zavarrone and Martha Friel

Measuring competitiveness differentials inside the same region: a propensity-score matching approach pp. 109-135

F. Fantechi and Ugo Fratesi

A Regression Tree-Based Analysis of the European Regional Competitiveness pp. 137-167

Laura Bocci, Pierpaolo D’Urso, Donatella Vicari and Vincenzina Vitale

Assessing Response Readiness to Health Emergencies: A Spatial Evaluation of Health and Socio-Economic Justice in Pakistan pp. 169-199

Muhammad Sajjad, Syed Hassan Raza and Asad Abbas Shah

Sustainable Innovation: The Italian Scenario Studied Through Higher-Order Partial Least Squares-Path Modeling pp. 201-225

Rosanna Cataldo, Corrado Crocetta, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Paolo Mazzocchi, Antonella Rocca and Claudio Quintano

Testing for Localization with Entropy-Based Measures pp. 227-247

Roy Cerqueti and Eleonora Cutrini

Does R&D Expenditure Boost Economic Growth in Lagging Regions? pp. 249-268

Viviana Celli, Augusto Cerqua and Guido Pellegrini

Broken Trust. Confidence Gaps and Distrust in Latin America pp. 269-281

Paolo Parra Saiani, Enrico Ivaldi, Andrea Ciacci and Lucia Di Stefano

Evaluating Rank-Coherence of Crowd Rating in Customer Satisfaction pp. 283-303

Venera Tomaselli and Giulio Giacomo Cantone

A Three-Way Approach for Defining Competitiveness Indexes of the European Regions (NUTS-2) pp. 305-349

Laura Bocci, Pierpaolo D’Urso, Donatella Vicari and Vincenzina Vitale