Well‐Being, Social Capital and Public Policy: What's New?
总结了主观幸福感决定因素的最新实证研究，发现社会资本（特别是信任）和政府质量对幸福感有显著影响，并指出改善工作环境能同时提升员工满意度和企业效率。
This article summarises recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well-being. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well-being beyond those flowing through economic channels. Cross-national samples (supported by parallel analysis of suicide data) show large well-being effects from the quality of government. Finally, using well-being data to estimate the income-equivalents non-financial aspects of the workplace produces numbers so large as to suggest the existence of unexploited opportunities to improve both employee satisfaction and enterprise efficiency. Copyright 2006 Royal Economic Society.