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Knowledge is Power - A Theory of Information, Income, and Welfare Spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - CESifo - 2011

. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

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The Devil is in the Shadow – Do Institutions Affect Income and Productivity or only Official Income and Official Productivity?

Dreher, Axel; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2007

This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...

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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation

Apps, Patricia; Long, Ngo Van; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2009

attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main …

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The Global Joint Distribution of Income and Health

Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasis - CESifo - 2008

We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we … estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous … univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy jointly and estimate their bivariate global distribution for 137 …

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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of Ethnic and Native Germans

Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background ('Native Germans'). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants...

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The educational attainment of the second generation in Germany : social origins and ethnic inequality

Kristen, Cornelia; Granato, Nadia - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007

"With the German Microcensus we study the second generation's educational attainment in Germany focusing on the descendants of classic labour migrants. Our results show that educational outcomes in terms of attending or completing the highest schooling track leading to the Abitur considerably...

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