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Happiness Inequality in the United States
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822578
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762372
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Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
Cuesta, Jose; Nopo, Hugo; Pizzolitto, Georgina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804585
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The Great Happiness Moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252278
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A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
, including inequality, oppositional culture, group boundary permeability, social inclusion and exclusion, segregation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703470
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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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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
Jasso, Guillermina; Milgrom, Eva M. Meyersson - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper develops a framework for studying individuals’ ideas about what constitutes just compensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay and the principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master of Business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762318
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Social Insurance, Informality and Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers While Creating Good Jobs
Pagés, Carmen; Rigolini, Jamele; Robalino, David A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
and inequality. Finally, from the point of view of labor markets, by aiming to reduce perceived tax-wedges. This could be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734419
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The New Stylized Facts about Income and Subjective Well-Being
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635588
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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...
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