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National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich nations' well-being; Great Britain and the US enter further down; France and Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for...

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Identifying Population Groups at High Risk of Social Exclusion: Evidence from the ECHP

Tsakloglou, Panos; Papadopoulos, Fotis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

In recent years in the public discourse of many European countries there has been a shift in emphasis from "poverty" to "social exclusion". Broadly interpreted, "social exclusion" implies the "inability of an individual to participate in the basic political, economic and social functionings of...

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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Poverty in Rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper revisits the debate over the importance of absolute vs. relative income as a correlate of subjective well-being using data from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world with high levels of corruption and poor governance. We do so by combining household data with...

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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal …

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

Brown, David J.; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore …

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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an … input index with annual industrial census data from 1985 to 2001, we find that Soviet Russia displayed low reallocation …

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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...

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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the …This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and … Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in …

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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

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Income Mobility

Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide comprehensive review of a particular area...

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