in macroeconomic studies, social welfare is assumed as a function of inflation and unemployment. although the social welfare function which is dependent to unemployment and inflation variables has been used widely in macroeconomic theories, but this relation needs to be tested through empirical observations. this paper, using variables such as to economics of happiness area and subjective wellb...

China’s impressive growth has been accompanied by huge rural-urban divide and social sacrifice of many including rural-urban migrants. Reflecting on the documentary Last Train Home (2009) by Lixin Fan, this paper identifies and examines the life of rural-urban migrants in China in terms of poverty-reduction, child-care, education and equal opportunities for a better life. By comparing the seemi...

Hokkaido Institute of Public Health, Sapporo 060-0819; 1School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu 069-8501; 2Sorachi Public Health and Social Welfare Office, Iwamizawa 068-8558; 3Kamikawa Public Health and Social Welfare Office, Asahikawa 079-8610; 4Iburi Public Health and Social Welfare Office, Muroran 051-8555; 5Department of Health and Welfare, Hokkaido Government, Sapp...

We characterize the class of Arrovian Social Welfare Functions as integer solutions to a collection of linear inequalities. Many of the known results about impossibility, Arrovian Social Welfare Functions, properties of the majority rule etc., can be derived in a simple and unified way from this integer program. We characterize those preference domains that admit a non-dictatorial, neutral Arro...

2.2 Inequality Measures and Decompositions ............................................................................................... 78 2.2.1 Inequality measures and the extended Gini..................................................................................... 78 2.2.2 Source decomposition of the Gini and the Gini income elasticity................................................. ...

The present paper outlines and analyzes Australia’s welfare reform policies as they have been implemented over the past decade. While there have been numerous social policy initiatives over this period, welfare reform provides an interesting site for analysis and review. This suite of policies and programs is of particular importance from several standpoints. First, its target groups – those ne...

Resource allocation is a fundamental problem in the field of multiagent systems, where a set of resources need to be allocated to a group of agents in a way so as to optimizing social welfare. In the last few years this problem has received much attention, especially due to its wide applicability domain (see the survey of Chevaleyre et al. [CDE+06]). This thesis studies the approximability and ...

This paper studies the relationship between social capital and household welfare. Social capital is taken to mean, very simply, 'durable social networks'. The relationship is investigated using survey work conducted in two villages in eastern Uganda. The surveys gathered information on the quality and extent of people’s participation in local organizations, as well as household welfare. To orga...