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Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...

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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity , Ethnicity, and War

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

significant effect of religiosity on happiness. With respect to Jewish families it is most striking that the impact of family size …

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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research

Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The vast literature about happiness … reference groups in SWB-models. In this paper we employ the reference-extended model for incorporating in happiness studies the … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

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International Migration: A Global Complex Network

Tranos, Emmanouil; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Migration has become a prominent research theme in geography and regional science and it has been approached from various methodological angles. Nonetheless, a common missing element in most migration studies is the lack of awareness of the overall network topology, which characterizes migration...

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Regional Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Review

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...

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When the Quality of a Nation triggers Emigration

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...

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Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care

Klaveren, Chris van; Brink, Henriette Maassen van den; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...

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Intra-household Work Time Synchronization: Togetherness or Material Benefits?

Klaveren, Chris van; Brink, Henriëtte Maassen van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in order to increase the amount of joint leisure. In order to control for differences in constraints and selection effects, this paper uses a new matching procedure, providing...

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Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis

Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 … we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness … seems to us the natural consequence of the happiness economics methodology. In Section 5 we sketch how this approach can …

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How important is Methodology for the Estimates of the Determinants of Happiness?

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Frijters, Paul - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Psychologists and sociologists usually interpret answers to happiness surveys as cardinal and comparableacross … respondents (Kahneman et al. 1999). As a result, these social scientists run OLS regressionson happiness and changes in happiness …

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