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Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...

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Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-being

FitzRoy, Felix; Nolan, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In a model with heterogeneous workers and both intensive and extensive margins of employment, we consider two systems of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own-consumption relative to average employed workers’ consumption,...

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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia Is Not a Paradox

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

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Subcontracting and the Size and Composition of the Informal Sector: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Moreno-Monroy, Ana Isabel; Pieters, Janneke; Erumban, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationship between formal sector subcontracting and the evolution of the informal sector using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for the period 1995-2006. In these years of fast economic growth, subcontracting by formal...

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Labour Use and Its Adjustment in Indian Manufacturing Industries

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model applied to a panel of 22 two-digit manufacturing industries...

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Measurement of Globalization and Its Variations Among Countries, Regions and Over Time

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

contribution to the overall integration. Finally, we investigate the links between globalization and labor market in India …

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