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less psychological harm from unemployment than do the non-religious; equally both Catholics and Protestants are less hurt … by marital separation. However, while Protestants are protected against divorce, Catholics are punished for it. These … on both attitudes (the religious are both anti-divorce and anti-job creation for the unemployed) and behaviour (the …
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The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
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Le chapitre traite de l'économie du droit du divorce en abordant, dans une première partie, la question de savoir si …, le droit du divorce est neutre. …
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Après avoir rappelé à grands traits les hypothèses théoriques quant au rôle que joueraient les revenus dans les choix de nuptialité, ainsi que quelques résultats empiriques portant sur le lien entre revenus d'activité et probabilité de divorcer, nous proposons une analyse empirique...
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This paper asks whether a gap in spouses' subjective happiness matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use … into account by any existing economic models of the household. The relationship between happiness gaps and divorce is …
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-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …
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neighborhood characteristics explain victimization better than individual characteristics. Second, I find that local unemployment … the precise localization of the data to adopt a spatial approach, comparing the effect of unemployment rate in the …
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determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …
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This paper presents a model allowing to analyze voting, welfare institutions and economic performance. We consider a political economy framework with three classes of agents: entrepreneurs, employed workers and unemployed workers. Agents vote on alternative institutional options: the degree of...
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with a small one. Surprisingly, the end of transition is also characterized by lower unemployment when there are massive … layoffs - because in the short run, the high unemployment implied by the massive decrease makes job creation in the …
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