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Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...

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Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?

Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that …

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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is NOT a Paradox

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score … and Oswald, when we analyse life satisfaction in place of happiness, and when we measure development using GDP per capita …

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Unhappiness and job finding

Gielen, Anne; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

happiness, which might explain why at least some workers need to be activated. In addition to that, we find that even though … unemployed who experience a drop in happiness search more actively for a job, it does not speed up their job finding. Apparently …

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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle

Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel...

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Does Inequality Cause Inflation? The Political Economy of Inflation, Taxation and Government Debt

Beetsma, Roel; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

A democratic society in which the distribution of wealth is unequal elects political parties which tend to represent the interests of the poor. The clientele of such governments favour unanticipated inflation taxes to erode the real value of debt service and redistribute income from the rich to...

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Privatization, Risk-Taking, and the Communist Firm

Demougin, Dominique; Sinn, Hans-Werner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper studies alternative methods of privatizing a formerly communist firm in the presence of imperfect risk markets. The methods include cash sales, a give-away scheme, and a participation contract where the government retains a sleeping fractional ownership in the firm. It is shown that...

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Job Security and Job Protection

Clark, Andrew E; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We construct indicators of the perception of job security for various types of jobs in 12 European countries using individual data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). We then consider the relation between reported job security and OECD summary measures of Employment Protection...

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Imposed Institutions and Preferences for Redistribution

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

To what extent do imposed institutions shape preferences? We consider this issue by comparing the market-versus-state attitudes of respondents from a capitalist country, Finland, and an ex-communist group of Baltic countries, and arguing that the period under the communist rule can be viewed as...

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Subjective Welfare, Isolation and Relative Consumption

Fafchamps, Marcel; Shilpi, Forhad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The recent literature has shown that subjective welfare depends on relative income. Attempts to test this relationship in poor countries have yielded conflicting results, suggesting that the relationship is not universal or only applies above a certain income level. We revisit the issue using...

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