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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294836
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Linking Individuals and Societies
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039644
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A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and … - comparison, status, and power - each associated with a distinctive mechanism, in particular, a distinctive rate of change of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703470
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Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
When a society overthrows a ruler – call the ruler Caesar – what determines whether Caesar is killed or enslaved? This paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power. The model pertains to societies which value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822039
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Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The goal of scientific work is to understand more and more by less and less. In this effort, theoretical unification plays a large part. There are two main types of theoretical unification – unification of different theories of the same field of phenomena and unification of theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822968
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Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles
Clark, Andrew E.; Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
presence of relative income terms in the utility function. Income may be evaluated relative to others (social comparison) or to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763569
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The Terms and Relations of Comparison, Referential, and Relative Processes
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper develops the mathematical foundations of comparison, referential, and relative (CRR) processes. The key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700875
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The Labour Market Integration of Refugee and Family Reunion Immigrants: A Comparison of Outcomes in Canada and Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735640
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The Fertility of Recent Immigrants to Canada
Adsera, Alicia; Ferrer, Ana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959587
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The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Pellerin, Mathieu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We consider changes in the distribution of hourly compensation in Canada using confidential census data and the recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210815