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Human Capital and Optimal Positive Taxation of Capital Income

Jacobs, Bas; Bovenberg, A. Lans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labor incomes in a life-cyclemodel of human capital investment, financial savings, and labor supply with heteroge-nous individuals. A dual income tax with a positive marginal tax rate on not onlylabor income but also capital income is...

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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle

Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

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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Health and Income across the Life Cycle and Generations in Europe

Kippersluis, Hans van; Ourti, Tom van; O'Donnell, Owen; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

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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Socioeconomic Differences in Health over the Life Cycle in an Egalitarian Country

Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Social Science & Medicine' (2010). Volume 70, issue 3, pages 428-438.<P> 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...</p>

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Lifetime Labor Supply in a Search Model of Unemployment

Bettendorf, Leon J.H.; Broer, D. Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation andunemployment by integrating job search with intertemporal optimizing behaviorof finitely-lived households. We find that search frictions and tax ratesdistort the decisions of older workers to a much larger extent than that ofyoung...

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Describing the Relationships between Tourist Satisfaction and Destination Loyalty in a Segmented and Digitalized Market

Neuts, Bart; Romão, João; Leeuwen, Eveline van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

). The results of the path analysis indicate possibilities for e-services to increase both satisfaction and loyalty …

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Life Satisfaction Differences between Workers and Non-Workers - The Value of Participation per se

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same …

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The Mediating Role of Psychosocial Benefits in the Satisfaction Formation Process

Prevo, Olaf; Leunisse, Patrick; Roest, Henk - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

/dissatisfaction formation process. Most research on this subject deals with thecausality direction of psychosocial benefits and satisfaction … psychosocial benefits within a customer satisfaction framework. Knowledge ofwhich functional benefit can control which psychosocial … benefit directly enables themanagement of customer satisfaction and indirectly purchase intention. Using Partial LeastSquares …

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Measuring Power and Satisfaction in Societies with Opinion Leaders: An Axiomatization

Brink, Rene van den; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Steffen, Frank - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

choice is made by simple majority of the actions chosen by each member. For this model we axiomatize satisfaction and power …

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Subjective Questions to Measure Welfare and Well-being

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

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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