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Elusive effects of unemployment on happiness

Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

personally reduces life satisfaction, but does not have a significant effect on happiness in ordered logit estimation. However …, generalized ordered logit estimation reveals that being unemployed has a negative effect on happiness at lower happiness scores …, but no significant effect at high happiness levels. …

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Low-wage employment in Portugal: a mixed logit approach

Barros, Carlos; Proenca, Isabel; Vieira, Jose Cabral - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper, we examine the determinants of low-wage employment in Portugal. For this purpose, we use a data file of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for the years 1998 and 1999. In order to take into account unobserved heterogeneity in the data, a random-parameter logit model is...

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National Health Accounts in Latin America and Caribbean - Concept, Results and Policy Uses

Magnoli, Alessandro - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents the National Health Accounts (NHA) methodology and its relevance in policy making in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. After presenting the concept of NHA and highlighting recent results of LAC data collection activities, the paper will focus on policy...

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Competition Policy In Network Industries: An Introduction

Economides, Nicholas - EconWPA - 2004

We discuss issues of the application of antitrust law and regulatory rules to network industries. In assessing the application of antitrust in network industries, we analyze a number of relevant features of network industries and the way in which antitrust law and regulatory rules can affect...

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US Telecommunications Today, October 2002

Economides, Nicholas - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the current conditions in the US telecommunications sector (October 2002). We examine the impact of technological and regulatory change on market structure and business strategy. Among others, we discuss the emergence and decline of the telecom bubble, the impact on pricing...

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Agency Problems in Law Enforcement: Theory and Application to the U.S. Coast Guard

gawande, kishore; bohara, alok k. - EconWPA - 2005

We study two issues in the enforcement of public law. The first is whether the system of inspections and penalties set by the regulator is effective. The second is whether a better system of inspections and penalties can be designed, given the institutional constraints under which the regulator...

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Cuentas Nacionales de Salud en América Latina y Caribe - Concepto, resultados y política de empleo

Magnoli, Alessandro - EconWPA - 2005

Este trabajo presenta la metodología de las Cuentas Nacionales de Salud (CNS) y su importancia en el diseño de políticas en la región de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (LAC). Después de presentar el significado el concepto de las CNS y de resaltar algunos de los resultados recientes en los...

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Motu, Excellence in Economic Research and the Challenge of 'Human Dimensions' Research

Kerr, Suzi - EconWPA - 2003

Economics as a 'trade' does very well in New Zealand. Economists are taken relatively seriously in government policy processes. For better or worse, economic ideas were major drivers of the reforms in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Plenty of well-paid job opportunities exist in the private...

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Rethinking Governance: Empirical Lessons Challenge Orthodoxy

Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

In this discussion draft, linking research findings with concrete operational challenges, we review key issues in worldwide governance, and present recent empirical evidence. Focusing on defining and unbundling key governance components, such as rule of law, voice and accountability, corruption...

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Testing for Utility Interdependence in Marriage: Evidence from Panel Data

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2004

This paper is the first of its kind to study utility interdependence in marriage using information on subjective well-being of a large sample of people living in the UK over the period 1991-2001. Using “residual” self-rated health to provide instrument for spouse’s well-being and allowing...

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