In this article, the authors examine why low-income persons choose a managed care plan and the effects of choice on access and satisfaction, using data from the 1995-96 Kaiser/Commonwealth Five-State Low-Income Survey. Two-thirds of those choosing a managed care plan cited costs or benefits as their primary reason. Logistic regressions indicate that choice of plan had a neutral or positive effe...

The paper provides estimates of the effect of economic inequality on middle class well being in Switzerland. Economic well being is proxied by a person’s satisfaction with his/her income. Two inequality indicators are used, one standard (the Gini coefficient of the pre-tax income distribution) and one novel (the number of luxury car registrations per 1000 population). Identification is through ...

This paper discusses a novel approach to elicit people’s preferences for public goods, namely the life satisfaction approach. Reported subjective well-being data are used to directly evaluate utility consequences of public goods. The strengths of this approach are compared to traditional approaches and identification issues are addressed. Moreover, it is applied to estimate utility losses cause...

the purpose of this paper was to determine the factors affecting farmers’ satisfaction from water users associations (wuas) in the harran plain-turkey. the data used in this study come from a sample of 378 farmers among 23,204 in the şanlıurfa-harran plain. they were chosen via simple random sampling method and interviewed face to face. sampling was conducted in 52% of the settlements. to analy...

job satisfaction of employees is one of the most challenging concepts in any organization and is the basis for many of the policies and management strategies to increase productivity and efficiency. it is influenced by many factors including environmental and personal factors, income, nature and social status of the job, organizational prestige, promotion, job security, lack of role ambiguity, ...

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership and political participation raise l...

one of the biggest opportunities and challenges facing organizations today is the use of web technology. the internet as a tool for economic exchanges create new sources of income for most of organizations put. the present study investigated the relationship between customer satisfaction and implementation of electronic systems has been. this research used a descriptive, correlational survey. t...