An empirical investigation into the determinants of life satisfaction in New Zealand

New Zealand Economic Papers

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 239-251

  Brown, Denise ^a   Woolf, Julie ^a   Smith, Conal ^b  

^a Statistics New Zealand ^*  (New Zealand)

^b OECD   (France)

Author keywords

determinants; life satisfaction; wellbeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868270779     PISSN: 00779954     EISSN: 19434863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00779954.2012.657896     Document Type: Article

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