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T1 Quality of Life in the European Union: An Econometric Analysis from a Gender Perspective
A1 Somarriba Arechavala, María Noelia
A1 Zarzosa Espina, Pilar
K1 Synthetic indicator · P2 distance · Econometric models · Welfare states · European Union · European Quality of Life Survey
K1 5302.04 Estadística Económica
AB This paper provides an approach to measure the quality of life in the EuropeanUnion from a multiple perspective: individual, socioeconomic and territorial by creating asubjective synthetic quality of life indicator, adopting an econometric approach. Amongstother objectives, the works seeks to obtain a robust synthetic measure of quality of life levelsusing the P2distance method in addition to conducting an econometric analysis usingthe European quality of life survey at the individual level. The index comprises informationon different social indicators from various life domains and provides a classification ofEuropean Union countries. Other objectives the paper pursues include exploring the determinantsof the quality of life and ascertaining whether gender differences exist in the levelsof quality of life in the European Union. Conclusions may thus be drawn concerning whichaspects emerge as the most relevant when explaining disparities in quality of life in theEuropean context from a spatial and gender perspective. The presence of significant gendergaps in many EU countries should lead us to rethink the design of policies aimed at achievingequality for EU citizens. The article also studies the suitability of certain indicators andthe estimation problems that arise at the inferential level in a specific context such as theEU.
PB Springer Nature
SN 0303-8300
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/65279
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/65279
LA eng
NO Social Indicators Research, 2019, Vol. 142, n.1, p. 179–200
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 17-jul-2024