Disability and happiness: the role of social policies ...

• Main Author: BELLIA, ASYA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Universit� di Siena 2021
• Subjects: Norway; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25434/bellia-asya_phd2021; https://usiena-air.unisi.it//handle/11365/1147128

Disabled people are less satisfied with their lives compared with nondisabled people. The first chapter of this doctoral thesis aims to understand how much of this differential is explained by the actual impairments disabled people have and how much by the barriers they face to a full participation in society. Contrasting evidence on the effect of education on subjective well-being (SWB) suggests that other factors, such as aspirations or income, might mediate the relationship between satisfaction and educational attainment. As regards working status, however, the positive impact of holding a job and the negative effect of being unemployed on individual happiness remain unquestioned (Di Tella et al., 2001; Frey & Stutzer; 2000; 2010). The data is taken from the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for year 2013. The EU-SILC is an annual survey including 32 countries, the 28 European Member States and four additional countries (Iceland, Norway, Serbia and Switzerland), which is ...