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A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income across Five OECD Countries

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...

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Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region

Ubarevičienė, Rūta; Burneika, Donatas; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyses the interrelationship between the process of suburbanization and a changing political and ethnic landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is dominated by Polish identity residents while those who suburbanise into the region are mainly ethnic...

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Minorities, Social Capital and Voting

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

It is widely held that voter turnout among immigrants and ethnic minorities is lower than among the native born. The goal of our paper is to explore the determinants of voting, comparing immigrant, minority and majority citizens in Canada. We use the 2002 wave of the Equality Security Community...

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Social Networks

de Martí, Joan; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...

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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …

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The Risk and Return of Human Capital Investments

Koerselman, Kristian; Uusitalo, Roope - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper … vocational high school. Accounting for risk does little to change this picture. By contrast, vocational high school is associated …

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Xenophobic Attacks, Migration Intentions and Networks: Evidence from the South of Africa

Friebel, Guido; Gallego, Juan Miguel; Mendola, Mariapia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate how emigration flows from a developing region are affected by xenophobic violence at destination. Our empirical analysis is based on a unique survey among more than 1000 households, collected in Mozambique in summer 2008, a few months after a series of xenophobic attacks in South...

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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balanced skill profiles, making them more … the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch … university graduates provides evidence which supports this contention. It thereby raises the possibility that even risk …

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Risk, Delegation, and Project Scope

Roider, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

exogenous risk and delegation. That is, we show that only if exogenous risk is sufficiently large, the risk-neutral principal … may prefer to delegate authority over decisions to the risk-averse agent. Intuitively, for incentive reasons, the … principal may optimally want to allow the agent to reduce his risk exposure. Nevertheless, even endogenous risk may be higher …

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Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality

Primiceri, Giorgio; van Rens, Thijs - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to...

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