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Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society
Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - EconWPA - 2004
society. It is also found that relative income is more important to happiness at higher levels of absolute income. Potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118826
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CIRCULAR VARIABLE WORK IN PROCESS
Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2002
This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126234
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Asynchronous Evolution of Pairs - How spatial evolution leads to inequality
Kirchkamp, Oliver - EconWPA - 1995
We present a simple model of spatial evolution that avoids several problems that arise with more complex networks of players. We consider a world where pairs of players are matched forever. These players learn from the whole population but they are more likely to learn to strategies used by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118522
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Knowing what is good for you. Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the “objective good”
Lelkes, Orsolya - EconWPA - 2005
This paper aims to test empirically if certain frequently used measures of well-being, which are regarded as valuable properties of human life, are actually desired by people. In other words, it investigates whether the “expert judgments” in social science overlap with social consensus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062470
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Knowing what is good for you. Empirical analysis of personal preferences and the 'objective good'
Lelkes, Orsolya - EconWPA - 2005
This paper aims to test empirically if certain frequently used measures of well-being, which are regarded as valuable properties of human life, are actually desired by people. In other words, it investigates whether the “expert judgments” in social science overlap with social consensus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407815
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The Long Walk to School: International education goals in historical perspective
Clemens, Michael A. - EconWPA - 2004
nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based … on the idea that a correct education policy backed by sufficient cash could achieve the goals in short order. The latest … of these, the Millennium Development Goals, call for universal primary schooling and full gender parity by 2015. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407681
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The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Labor Supply of Married Couples
Eissa, Nada; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - EconWPA - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076598
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SAVINGS MOBILIZATION ROLE OF NIGERIAN COMMERCIAL BANKS:AN ANALYTICAL POLICY STUDY
NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2003
CAPITAL ACCUMULATION HAS BEEN EMPHASISED AS THE MAJOR FACTOR GOVERING THE RATE OF DEVELOPMENT. THIS STUDY THEREFORE AIMS EXPLORING IN THE LIGHT OF PAST TRENDS, THE ROLE AND SCOPE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS AS FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN MOBILIZING DOMESTIC SAVINGS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND THE CONSTRAINTS IN...
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Effects of changes in flows of funds between Government and households.A SAM approach to Portugal.
Santos, Susana - EconWPA - 2005
Through the use of aggregate Social Accounting Matrices for Portugal, the flows of funds from three government subsectors to households will be studied, as well as the flows from the latter to the former. From the SAM modelling, both a static and a comparative static analysis will be made, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125657
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Welfare Benefits and Work Incentives. An Analysis of the Distribution of Net Replacement Rates in Europe using EUROMOD, a Multi- Country Microsimulation Model.
Immervoll, Herwig; O'Donoghue, Cathal - EconWPA - 2003
This paper considers the methodology of measuring replacement rates, comparing simulation based approaches, which simulate replacement rates for a representative sample of the population, with other approaches that simulate replacement rates for "typical" families or are entirely based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125757