한국의 경제행복지수 측정에 관한 연구 = The Measurement of the EconomicHappy Index in South Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The present literature for the economic happy index is Osberg and Sharpe(2002)`s paper which employ OECD countries. In this paper, we try to measure the economic happy index which includes more sophisticated than that paper and is fit for characteristics in Korean economic situations. Most of all, we try to survey professionals to decide variables in the economic happy index. In addition, we adopt variables of the economic stability such as education, living and housing stability etc. In the methodology, we give weights each variable using AHP analysis but existing papers give the same weights for the variable. Results shows the huge gap between the economic growth and the economic happy index when we use Korean data from the year of 2003 to that of 2010. There we confirm that the economic growth can not guarantee the enhancement of economic happiness. Moreover, improvement of the well-being, reinforcement of education and health, the improvement of income distribution and employment are essential to increase economic happiness.

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