Gender differences in subjective well-being: Comparing societies with respect to gender equality

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 329-349

  Tesch Römer, Clemens ^a   Motel Klingebiel, Andreas ^a   Tomasik, Martin J ^b  

^a GERMAN CENTRE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender; Quality of life; Welfare state comparisons; Well being

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; GENDER DISPARITY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 36749087653     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-007-9133-3     Document Type: Article

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