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

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Volume 165, issue 3, 2023

Urban–rural Integration and Poverty: Different Roles of Urban–rural Integration in Reducing Rural and Urban Poverty in China pp. 737-757

Kunzai Niu and Hengzhou Xu

The Cost and Benefit of Regional Cultural Diversity on the Income of Rural Workers: Evidence from China pp. 759-786

Ling Wang and Jianqing Ruan

How to Enhance Citizens’ Sense of Gain in Smart Cities? A SWOT-AHP-TOWS Approach pp. 787-820

Dezhi Li, Wentao Wang, Guanying Huang, Shenghua Zhou, Shiyao Zhu and Haibo Feng

The Persistence of the Gender Earnings Gap: Cohort Trends and the Role of Education in Twelve Countries pp. 821-841

Eyal Bar-Haim, Louis Chauvel, Janet C. Gornick and Anne Hartung

Socio-Spatial Cohesion: A Study of Structural, Interactive, and Subjective Dimensions in Mashhad Metropolitan Region, Iran pp. 843-866

Yalda Hashemi Ghoochani and Hashem Dadashpoor

COVID-19 and Social Capital Loss: The Results of a Campus Outbreak pp. 867-878

Gregory Fulkerson, Alexander Thomas, Jing-Mao Ho, James Zians, Elizabeth Seale, Michael McCarthy and Sallie Han

Inclusive Education and Health Performance in Sub Saharan Africa pp. 879-900

Jean-Claude Kouladoum

Should We Continue EU Cohesion Policy? The Dilemma of Uneven Development of Polish Regions pp. 901-917

Maciej Jagódka and Małgorzata Snarska

Sub-State Identity Conception: Applying ISSP Measures at Territorial Autonomy Level pp. 919-940

Brian C. H. Fong

Determinants of the Elderly Share of Population: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis pp. 941-957

Jungsuk Kim, Cynthia Castillejos Petalcorin, Donghyun Park and Shu Tian

How are Income and Assets Associated with Food Insecurity? An Application of the Growth Mixture Modeling pp. 959-973

Jun-Hong Chen, Chi-Fang Wu and Minchao Jin

Multidimensional Deprivation and Subgroup Heterogeneity of Rural Households in China: Empirical Evidence from Latent Variable Estimation Methods pp. 975-997

Zenghui Huo and Mei Zhang

Comparing Material and Social Deprivation Indicators: Identification of Deprived Populations pp. 999-1020

Enrico Fabrizi, Chiara Mussida and Maria Laura Parisi

Multidimensional Inequality and Subjective Well-Being in China: A Generalized Ordered Logit Model Analysis pp. 1021-1052

Long Yang, Haiyang Lu and Meng Li

Nature-Connectedness and Well-Being Experienced During Best and Worst Times of Life: A Case for Safeguarding Biocultural Diversity pp. 1053-1089

Valerie Møller, Michelle Cocks and Susanne Vetter

Volume 165, issue 2, 2023

The Effect of Digital Financial Inclusion on Relative Poverty Among Urban Households: A Case Study on China pp. 377-407

Peng Peng and Hui Mao

Does Inclusive Growth Contribute Towards Sustainable Development? Evidence from Selected Developing Countries pp. 409-429

Muhammad Kamran, Muhammad Zahid Rafique, Abdul Majeed Nadeem and Sofia Anwar

Does Social Capital Improve the Effectiveness of Public Service? An Insight from Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China pp. 431-452

Yue Wang, Honggen Zhu, Noshaba Aziz and Yu Liu

"Nice You Share in Return": Informational Sharing, Reciprocal Sharing, and Life Satisfaction Amid COVID-19 Pandemic pp. 453-471

Piper Liping Liu, Vincent Huang, Melannie Zhan and Xinshu Zhao

A Comparison of Migrant Integration Policies via Mixture of Matrix-Normals pp. 473-494

Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo, Francesco Amato, Filomena Maggino, Alfonso Piscitelli and Emiliano Seri

Who are the In-Work Poor? A Study of the Profile and Income Mobility Among the In-Work Poor in Sweden from 1987 to 2016 pp. 495-517

Lovisa Broström and Birgitta Jansson

Measuring Gender Gaps in Time Allocation in Europe pp. 519-553

Juan Campaña, Jose Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Jorge Velilla

Workplace Social Capital: Redefining and Measuring the Construct pp. 555-583

Andreas Tsounis, Despoina Xanthopoulou, Evangelia Demerouti, Konstantinos Kafetsios and Ioannis Tsaousis

Gender-Specific Wage Structure and the Gender Wage Gap in the U.S. Labor Market pp. 585-606

Assaf Rotman and Hadas Mandel

Research on Social Integration Structure and Path of Floating Population Based on Structural Equation Model: Evidence from China pp. 607-632

Hanlei Shen and Lun Xia

Multi-dimensional Housing Inequality Index: The Provincial Evidence from China pp. 633-654

Junhua Chen, Shufan Ma and Na Liu

Assessment of Urban Quality of Life Index at Local Scale with Different Weighting Approaches pp. 655-678

Rabia Bovkir, Eda Ustaoglu and Arif Cagdas Aydinoglu

What are Valid Weights for the Human Development Index? A Discrete Choice Experiment for the United Kingdom pp. 679-694

Mark McGillivray, Simon Feeny, Paul Hansen, Stephen Knowles and Franz Ombler

The Effects of Public Expenditure on Municipal Development: A Dynamic Panel Approach pp. 695-714

Guilherme Correa Petry and Ely José Mattos

Prepare for Impact! A Methodological Approach for Comprehensive Impact Evaluation of European Capital of Culture: The Case of Novi Sad 2022 pp. 715-736

Miroslav D. Vujičić, Uglješa Stankov, Vanja Pavluković, Ivana Štajner-Papuga, Sanja Kovačić, Jovana Čikić, Nemanja Milenković and Tamara Zelenović Vasiljević

Volume 165, issue 1, 2023

The livelihood impacts of COVID-19 in urban South Africa: a view from below pp. 1-30

Simone Schotte and Rocco Zizzamia

Analysis on the Measurement and Dynamic Evolution of Multidimensional Return to Poverty in Chinese Rural Households pp. 31-52

Songmao Wang, Yingzhi Guo and Zhaoli He

Social Capital and Its Returns as an Explanation for Early Labor Market Success of Majority and Minority Members in the Netherlands pp. 53-76

Ids Baalbergen and Eva Jaspers

Capability Index: Applying a Fuzzy-Based Decision-Making Method to Evaluate Social Inclusion in Urban Areas Using the Capability Approach pp. 77-105

Mohammad Azmoodeh, Farshidreza Haghighi and Hamid Motieyan

Is Growth Pro-poor Among the States of India? A Poverty Decomposition Exercise During the 2000s pp. 107-133

Priyabrata Sahoo, Debolina Biswas and Saswata Guha Thakurata

The Measurement of Social Capital in America: A Reassessment pp. 135-161

Călin Vâlsan, Zizi Goschin and Elena Druică

Income and Health in Predicting Older Adults’ Social Capabilities in China: The Mediating Role of Social Engagement pp. 163-180

Yalu Zhang, Qin Gao, Fuhua Zhai and Paul Anand

A Composite Indicator to Compare the Performance of Male and Female Students in Educational Systems pp. 181-212

M. M. Segovia-González and I. Contreras

Trends in Income Inequality: Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries pp. 213-243

Yousef Makhlouf

Surviving in Crisis Mode: The Effect of Material Hardship and Social Support on Emotional Wellbeing Among People in Poverty During COVID-19 pp. 245-265

Alisa C. Lewin, Michal Shamai and Sharon Novikov

The Social Dimension of the European Union: A Means to lock out Social Competition? pp. 267-281

Javier Bilbao-Ubillos

Family Size and Intergenerational Inequality: Evidence from China's One-child Policy pp. 283-307

Shuai Zhao

Social Inclusion Challenges and the Future of Relational Wellbeing: The Case of Indonesia and South-Korea pp. 309-332

Francisia S. S. E. Seda, Kevin Nobel Kurniawan and Yosef Hilarius Timu Pera

Intergenerational Social Mobility and Youth Well-Being in the Context of the Greek Socio-Economic Crisis pp. 333-353

Sophie Leontopoulou and Michael Chletsos

Welfare Regimes and Intergenerational Social Mobility: An Institutional Explanation of the Great Gatsby Curve pp. 355-375

Ke Meng and Shouhao Li

Volume 164, issue 3, 2022

Determinants of the Willingness to Retire of Older Workers in Europe pp. 1017-1041

Lieze Sohier, Bart Defloor, Luc Van Ootegem and Elsy Verhofstadt

Do renewable energy consumption and green trade openness matter for human well-being? Empirical evidence from European Union countries pp. 1043-1059

Betul Can, Zahoor Ahmed, Mahmood Ahmad and Muhlis Can

The ‘Gender Life-Satisfaction/Depression Paradox’ Is an Artefact of Inappropriate Control Variables pp. 1061-1072

David Bartram

Consensus-Based Sub-Indicator Weighting Approach: Constructing Composite Indicators Compatible with Expert Opinion pp. 1073-1099

Matheus Pereira Libório, Lívia Maria Leite Silva, Petr Iakovlevitch Ekel, Letícia Ribeiro Figueiredo and Patrícia Bernardes

Indicators for Evaluating High-Quality Agricultural Development: Empirical Study from Yangtze River Economic Belt, China pp. 1101-1127

Xufeng Cui, Ting Cai, Wei Deng, Rui Zheng, Yuehua Jiang and Hongjie Bao

Sprawl or Segregation? Local Fertility as a Proxy of Socio-spatial Disparities Under Sequential Economic Downturns pp. 1129-1160

Giuseppe Ricciardo Lamonica, Gloria Polinesi and Luca Salvati

Measuring human capital in South Africa across socioeconomic subgroups using a latent-variable approach pp. 1161-1185

Friderichs Tj and F. M. Correa

Forecasting National and Regional Youth Unemployment in Spain Using Google Trends pp. 1187-1216

Mihaela Simionescu and Javier Cifuentes-Faura

Corporate Social Responsibility Activities Through Twitter: From Topic Model Analysis to Indexes Measuring Communication Characteristics pp. 1217-1248

Camilla Salvatore, Silvia Biffignandi and Annamaria Bianchi

A Consumption-Based Definition of the Middle Class pp. 1249-1270

Melissa Haller, Jeffrey B. Wenger, Melanie A. Zaber and George W. Zuo

Severe Housing Deprivation in the European Union: a Joint Analysis of Measurement and Theory pp. 1271-1295

Rod Hick, Marco Pomati and Mark Stephens

Housing and occupant health: Findings from Vietnam pp. 1297-1321

Phuong Thu Nguyen, Preety Srivastava, Longfeng Ye and Jonathan Boymal

A tale of PLS Structural Equation Modelling: Episode I— A Bibliometrix Citation Analysis pp. 1323-1348

Enrico Ciavolino, Massimo Aria, Jun-Hwa Cheah and José Luis Roldán

The Methodological Contributions of the Barometer of Social Capital (BARCAS) to the Measurement of Social Capital pp. 1349-1377

John Sudarsky, Diana García and Jerónimo Sudarsky

Does Refugee Inflow Increase Crime Rates in the United States? pp. 1379-1401

Md. Thasinul Abedin, Rajarshi Mitra and Kanon Kumar Sen

Parallel Leisure Sport Activities Diversity with Economic, Social and Human Development Indicators pp. 1403-1425

Li-Shiue Gau, Pham Thuy Duong and Jong-Chae Kim

A New Measure of Wage Risk: Occupation-Specific Evidence for Germany pp. 1427-1462

Helmut Herwartz, David Rodriguez-Justicia and Bernd Theilen

Understanding Ghana’s Expenditure Inequality pp. 1463-1480

Sylvanus Gaku

The Foster–Greer–Thorbecke Poverty Measures Reveal More pp. 1481-1503

Tomson Ogwang

Inequality of Opportunity in Accessing Maternal and Newborn Healthcare Services: Evidence from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey pp. 1505-1529

Cinzia Di Novi and Harshita Thakare

Correction to: Parallel Subjective Well‑Being and Choice Experiment Evaluation of Ecosystem Services: Marine and Forest Reserves in Coastal Oregon, USA pp. 1531-1532

Kreg Lindberg, Tommy Swearingen and Eric M. White

Volume 164, issue 2, 2022

Measuring What Matters: Drawing on a Participatory Wellbeing Framework and Existing Data to Assess Child Wellbeing Outcomes Over Time pp. 543-599

Kate Sollis and Ben Edwards

Measuring Linguistic Diversity: A Multi-level Metric pp. 601-621

François Grin and Guillaume Fürst

Determinants of Job-Finding Intentions Among Young Adults from 11 European Countries pp. 623-648

Francisco Simões, Jale Tosun and Antonella Rocca

Within-Race Trust and the Trust Radius: Race Differences in Post-Apartheid South Africa pp. 649-664

Dorrit Posel

Effect of Formal and Informal Institutional Indicators on Innovation Activities: An Empirical Analysis for a Global Sample pp. 665-691

Amjad Naveed and Ghulam Shabbir

Health Limitations, Regional Care Infrastructure and Wellbeing in Later Life: A Multilevel Analysis of 96 European Regions pp. 693-709

Alina Schmitz and Martina Brandt

Inequality Persistence of 21 OECD Countries from 1870 to 2020: Linear and Non-Linear Fractional Integration Approaches pp. 711-725

Sakiru Solarin, Carmen Lafuente, Luis Gil-Alana and Maria Jesus Gonzalez Blanch

Criminality in Brazilian Border Municipalities: An Analysis of Overrepresentation and Its Determinants pp. 727-745

Augusta Pelinski Raiher

An Axiomatic Approach to the Measurement of Comparative Female Disadvantage pp. 747-772

Satya Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay and Conchita D’Ambrosio

Social Ties, Network Socioeconomic Diversity and Sporting Event Attendance pp. 773-790

Paolo Rungo and José Manuel Sánchez-Santos

Individualism Versus Collectivism and the Early-Stage Transmission of COVID-19 pp. 791-821

Shuguang Jiang, Qian Wei and Luyao Zhang

In Virus Veritas Lockdown and Happiness Under COVID-19 pp. 823-842

Salvatore Bimonte, Luigi Bosco and Arsenio Stabile

Occupying Protest and Life Dissatisfaction in Hong Kong pp. 843-859

Chau-kiu Cheung

Gender Ideology in Europe: Plotting Normative Types in a Multidimensional Space pp. 861-891

Maike Damme and Dimitris Pavlopoulos

Capturing Regional Disparity in Educational Transition in India: A Sequential Logit Based Transitional Probability Analysis pp. 893-928

Anjan Ray Chaudhury and Madhabendra Sinha

‘The Rise of Mass Poverty’? Breadline Britain/Poverty and Social Exclusion (1983–2012) Evidence Revisited pp. 929-946

Andrew Dunn and Clare Saunders

Correction to: ‘The Rise of Mass Poverty’? Breadline Britain/Poverty and Social Exclusion (1983–2012) Evidence Revisited pp. 947-947

Andrew Dunn and Clare Saunders

Determinants of the Attribution of Poverty in Turkey: An Empirical Analysis pp. 949-967

Şansel Özpinar and Sacit Akdede

Time precarity at work: nonstandard forms of employment and everyday life pp. 969-991

Daniela Campos Ugaz

Multidimensional Poverty among Nigerian Households: Sustainable Development Implications pp. 993-1014

Ismaila Rimi Abubakar

Editorial Expression of Concern to: Nexus Between Globalization, Income Inequality and Human Development in Indonesian Economy: Evidence from Application of Partial and Multiple Wavelet Coherence pp. 1015-1015

Muhammad Haseeb, Tulus Suryanto, Nira Hariyatie Hartani and Kittisak Jermsittiparsert

Volume 164, issue 1, 2022

Guest Editorial: Geographies of Well-Being and Quality of Life pp. 1-10

Tomas Hanell, Teemu Makkonen and Daniel Rauhut

A Reference Point-Based Proposal to Build Regional Quality of Life Composite Indicators pp. 11-30

Ana Garcia-Bernabeu, José Manuel Cabello and Francisco Ruiz

Geographical Differences in the Quality of Life in Poland: Challenges of Regional Policy pp. 31-54

Paweł Churski and Robert Perdał

Happy Cultures? A Multilevel Model of Well-Being with Individual and Contextual Human Values pp. 55-77

Fernando Bruna

Correction to: Happy Cultures? A Multilevel Model of Well-Being with Individual and Contextual Human Values pp. 79-82

Fernando Bruna

Unmet Aspirations and Urban Malaise pp. 83-103

Tomas Hanell

Exploring the Geography of Subjective Happiness in Europe During the Years of the Economic Crisis: A Multilevel Modelling Approach pp. 105-137

Dimitris Ballas and Ilias Thanis

Urbanity, Neighbourhood Characteristics and Perceived Quality of Life (QoL): Analysis of Individual and Contextual Determinants for Perceived QoL in 3300 Postal Code Areas in Finland pp. 139-164

Mikko Weckroth, Sanna Ala-Mantila, Dimitris Ballas, Thanasis Ziogas and Jonna Ikonen

No Place for Poor Men: On the Asymmetric Effect of Urbanization on Life Satisfaction pp. 165-187

Camilla Lenzi and Giovanni Perucca

Generalized Poverty-gap Orderings pp. 189-215

Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato and Kohei Kamaga

Civic Participation as a Promoter of Well-Being: Comparative Analysis among European Countries pp. 217-237

Andrea Vega-Tinoco, Ana Isabel Gil-Lacruz and Marta Gil-Lacruz

The Role of Birthplace Diversity in Shaping Education Gradients in Trust: Country and Regional Level Mediation-Moderation Analyses pp. 239-261

Francesca Borgonovi and Artur Pokropek

World Environment Day: Understanding Environmental Programs Impact on Society Using Twitter Data Mining pp. 263-284

Enara Zarrabeitia-Bilbao, Rosa-María Rio-Belver, Izaskun Alvarez-Meaza and Itziar Martínez de Alegría-Mancisidor

Is the Millennial Generation Left Behind? Inter-Cohort Labour Income Inequality in a Context of Economic Shock pp. 285-321

Marta Escalonilla, Begoña Cueto and María José Pérez-Villadóniga

Overwhelmed by Learning in Lockdown: Effects of Covid-19-enforced Homeschooling on Parents’ Wellbeing pp. 323-343

Marieke Heers and Oliver Lipps

Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty: An Application to Colombian Households pp. 345-371

Jhon Edwar Hernández and Blanca Zuluaga

Construction of a Reflective Quality of Life Index for Gauteng Province in South Africa pp. 373-408

Samy Katumba, Julia Kadt, Mark Orkin and Paul Fatti

Employment Status and Well-Being Among Young Individuals. Why Do We Observe Cross-Country Differences? pp. 409-437

Dominik Buttler

A Systematic Review of University Social Responsibility in Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of the Great Lakes Region of East Africa pp. 439-475

Habarurema Jean Baptiste, Yan Guang Cai, A. Y. M. Atiquil Islam and Nzabalirwa Wenceslas

Labour Force Projections in India Until 2060 and Implications for the Demographic Dividend pp. 477-497

Guillaume Marois, Ekaterina Zhelenkova and Balhasan Ali

Joint Income-Wealth Poverty in a Cross-National Perspective: The Role of Country-Level Indicators pp. 499-541

Netta Achdut and Lea Achdut