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Illness and Health Satisfaction: The Role of Relative Comparisons

Thiel, Lars - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper investigates the role of relative comparisons in health status for individual health satisfaction. Previous research stresses the importance of interdependencies in subjective well-being and health arising from positional preferences and status e ects, social health norms, and...

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The Efficient Side of Progressive Income Taxation

Corneo, Giacomo - CESifo - 2000

This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …

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The Trade-off between Intra- and Intergenerational Equity in Climate Policy

Kverndokk, Snorre; Nævdal, Eric; Nøstbakken, Linda - CESifo - 2013

This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which each...

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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes - in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...

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The Role of Family Risk Attitudes in Education and Intergenerational Mobility: An Empirical Analysis

Huebener, Mathias - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

risk taking fathers have a significantly higher educational mobility and persistently higher income mobility than peers … experience higher educational mobility, but there is no difference in income mobility to risk averse sons. There are no …

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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany: Heterogeneous Effects and Skill Formation

Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

We analyze the effect of education on wages using German Socio-Economic Panel data and regional variation in mandatory years of schooling and the supply of schools. This allows us to estimate more than one local average treatment effect and heterogeneous effects for different groups of...

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The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes - in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - CESifo - 2015

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Recession Depression: Mental Health Effects of the 2008 Stock Market Crash

McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - CESifo - 2013

-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock …

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Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 45,800 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2011 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...

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