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particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the … consider the relationship between income/wealth and life satisfaction, another variable captured in TILDA. We find that income …
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north- and particularly the southwest. Low village income results in long-distance migration for many ethnic minorities, but …
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countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce … with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany …
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The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but … only small effects on measures of subjective well-being. Income, however, is clearly an imperfect measure of the economic … circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2001 and 2002 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia …
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Based on Norwegian register data we show that having a lone parent in the terminal phase of life significantly affects the offspring's labor market activity. The employment propensity declines by around 1 percentage point among sons and 2 percentage points among daughters during the years just...
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inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture). After controlling for economic, institutional, religious, and cultural factors … inheritance. We also find that only the effect of inheritance rules persists over the 1971-2001 period. …
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In this paper we investigate Oswald's hypothesis according to which higher homeownership rates increase aggregate … following an (exogenous) increase in homeownership rates. We show that (1) Oswald's hypothesis does not always hold as it … depends crucially on the importance of mobility costs; (2) while higher homeownership may harm macroeconomic labour market …
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homeownership experience high parental voting turnout in elections. We also investigate whether homeownership influences the … associations between homeownership and state-ownership rates and outcome variables. Our findings show no discernible effect of … homeownership on parental voting turnout in school elections after controls are added (contrary to the simple positive association …
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Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth carried out by the Bank of Italy. Our results confirm that in Italy both labor … income uncertainty and credit constraints exert a significant negative effect on the probability of homeownership. Our main …Barriers to homeownership have traditionally been an important research and policy issue. In particular, the role of …
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In this paper we investigate the effect of labour income uncertainty on the probability of homeownership in Germany and … preference for renting while those located in a positively skewed income distribution show a greater propensity for homeownership … concept of “skewness affection” as a relevant phenomenon. To carry out this test we propose an income uncertainty measure …
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