Empowerment Rights and Happiness Gap in Post-socialist Countries
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Keywords
empowerment rights; economic analysis of human rights; happiness gap; de jure and de facto rights protection;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- K38 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Human Rights Law; Gender Law; Animal Rights Law
- P37 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Legal
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
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