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Biased wage expectations and female labor supply

Blesch, Maximilian; Eisenhauer, Philipp; Haan, Peter; … - 2023

Wage growth occurs almost exclusively in full-time work, whereas it is close to zero in part-time work. German women, when asked to predict their own potential wage outcomes, show severely biased expectations with strong over-optimism about the returns to part-time experience. We estimate a...

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The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction : empirical evidence and theoretical implications

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2001

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction are explored. First, it is empirically established that current job satisfaction rises with absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. Second, a basic job satisfaction function is constructed based on the empirical results, and...

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Redistributive effects of different pension structures when longevity varies by socioeconomic status in a general equilibrium setting

Sanchez-Romero, Miguel; Lee, Ronald Demos; … - 2019

Differences in life expectancy between high and low socioeconomic groups are often large and have widened recently in many countries. Such longevity gaps affect the actuarial fairness and progressivity of public pension systems. However, behavioral responses to longevity and policy complicate...

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The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013 - This draft: August 2, 2012

In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...

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Is welfare dependency inherited? : estimating the causal welfare transmission effects using Swedish sibling data

Edmark, Karin; Hanspers, Kajsa - 2012

This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely to be welfare recipients as young adults, compared to individuals who grow up in non-welfare households. We use the sibling difference method to identify causal effects...

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"Beauty is the promise of happiness"?

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Abrevaya, Jason - 2011

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true effects of beauty on happiness. Personal beauty...

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The effect of sexual activity on wages

Drydakis, Nick - 2013

The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate … potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this …'s set of productive traits that affect wages. Using two stage estimations we examine the relationship between adult sexual …

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Employment, wages, and alcohol consumption in Russia : evidence from panel data

Tekin, Erdal - 2002

This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol …

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Neighbourhood deprivation, life satisfaction and earnings : comparative analyses of neighbourhood effects at bespoke scales

Knies, Gundi; Melo, Patricia C.; Zhang, Min - 2020

and wages is not a genuine causal effect, but largely explained by strong spatial sorting mechanisms. We also find that …

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Immigrant assimilation and welfare participation : do immigrants assimilate into or out-of welfare

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990's. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent...

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