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Jul 30, 2018 · It is linked to poorer economic growth and fosters social discontent and unrest. So, given that the five Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden – are some of the world’s...
- Geoffrey M Hodgson
- # Introduction
- # Review of Existing Explanations
- # Examining Nordic Countries in Whr Data
- # History and The Hunt For The Root Cause
- # Conclusion
- # References
From 2013 until today, every time the World Happiness Report (WHR) has published its annual ranking of countries, the five Nordic countries – Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland – have all been in the top ten, with Nordic countries occupying the top three spots in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Clearly, when it comes to the level of average life e...
Many theories have been put forth to explain the high level of Nordic happiness, from successful modernization and the ability to support better the less well off, to high levels of social capital.Here we review the most prominent theories to see the strength of their explanatory power as regards Nordic happiness. After having reviewed each explana...
The World Happiness Reporttends to use six factors as predictors of life evaluation: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, and corruption. Are the Nordic countries somehow different as regards these six factors? Among these factors, are there some in which the Nordic countries perform esp...
The key difficulty in explaining Nordic exceptionalism is that the Nordic countries rank highly on such a number of well-being predicting indicators that it is hard to disentangle cause and effect. There are a cluster of factors that tend to co-occur, including high life satisfaction, high levels of social and institutional trust, high-quality demo...
The Nordic countries are characterized by a virtuous cycle in which various key institutional and cultural indicators of good society feed into each other including well-functioning democracy, generous and effective social welfare benefits, low levels of crime and corruption, and satisfied citizens who feel free and trust each other and governmenta...
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Sep 4, 2019 · Even Europe's most egalitarian countries struggle to put women on an even footing at work. In the Nordics, why do women still lag behind men in pay, management and company ownership?
Dec 18, 2018 · But why are these nations so far ahead of others? According to the OECD , almost three in four working-age women in Nordic countries are part of the paid labour force, and policy-makers explicitly support gender equality at work, at home and in public.
Jul 25, 2020 · Based on the study made in 2018, 63 percent of people of African descent in Finland have experienced racially motivated harassment, compared to a group average of 30 percent in the 12 European Union states surveyed. In both Denmark and Sweden, the number was 41 percent.
Apr 29, 2021 · Simultaneous translation has long been available for the two non-Scandinavian languages during meetings. The idea of Nordic cohesion and cooperation is not only built on the common Scandinavian language, says Strang. Speaking English in Nordic settings is often seen as more democratic and inclusive.
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Jan 25, 2022 · From there, the Danish government frames non-Western immigrants and multiculturalism as a threat to the “social wages” that Danes enjoy, justifying differential access to socio-economic and political benefits and privileges.
