Social Investment (in Wellbeing?)

Optimal investment in social signals.

This study is an attempt to determine how much individuals should invest in social communication, depending on the type of relationships they may form. Two simple models of social relationships are considered. In both models, individuals emit costly signals to advertise their "quality" as potential friends. Relationships are asymmetrical or symmetrical. In the asymmetrical condition (first mode...

Social Investment in Latin America

Social Security Investment in Equities

This paper explores the general-equilibrium impact of social security portfolio diversiŽ cation into private securities, either through the trust fund or private accounts. The analysis depends critically on heterogeneities in saving, production, assets, and taxes. Limited diversiŽcation weakly increases interest rates, reduces the expected return on short-term investment (and the equity premium...

Transnationalism, Social Wellbeing and Older Chinese Migrants

The concept of transnationalism offers a renovated window into the study of migrant ageing. This paper employs transnationalism as a theoretical framework to explore two outcome domains of social wellbeing i.e. health and social connectedness, among older Chinese migrants. The findings reveal that older Chinese migrants’ transnational health practices and social connected...

Social Order and Mental Health: a Social Wellbeing Approach

“Health is a state of physical, social and psychological wellbeing, and not simply the absence of illness”. This definition, repeated ad infinitum since 1948, when it was adopted as its own by the World Health Organization (WHO), and although essentially sidelined by a large proportion of the disciplines traditionally responsible for the study of health, has taken on a new profile in the wake o...