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A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the multidimensional and dynamic nature of the variables, the causal mechanisms connecting them are poorly understood. This paper argues that adoption of a life-cycle perspective is essential...
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This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labor incomes in a life-cycle
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This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation and unemployment by integrating job search with intertemporal optimizing behavior of finitely-lived households. We find that search frictions and tax rates distort the decisions of older workers to a much larger extent than that of...
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An age-cohort decomposition applied to panel data identifies how the mean, overall inequality and income-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of...
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same …
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self-reported satisfaction regarding their start-up. Our study identifies a new facet of procedural utility and offers new … entrepreneurs that “cannot get satisfaction” with their start-up—not because their start-up fails to deliver financial returns, but …-financial incentives of entrepreneurs. While financial success is the most important determinant of start-up satisfaction, achievement of …
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satisfaction and power scores which allow us to analyze the actors' satisfaction and power with respect to the collective choice …
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This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...
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In this paper we investigate the mediating role of psychosocial benefits in the customer satisfaction …/dissatisfaction formation process. Most research on this subject deals with the causality direction of psychosocial benefits and satisfaction … psychosocial benefits within a customer satisfaction framework. Knowledge of which functional benefit can control which …
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