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Distribution', volume 2B, North Holland, Elsevier, chapter 18, 143 pages.<P> We examine the relationship between income and health … with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income … makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks early in life is a potentially important mechanism through …
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In this paper I analyse job satisfaction using fixed effect analysis and a multiple equation model. Overall job … satisfaction is analysed as an aggregate of satisfaction with several job aspects. I find that overall job satisfaction is mainly … determined by satisfaction with job content. All aspect satisfactions are subsequently explained from observed characteristics …
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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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type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables …
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In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed inthe nineties by Oswald ,Clark … previous century. We find that both approaches yield strikinglysimilar results with respect to financial satisfaction. The IEQ …
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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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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. Economists, on the other hand, usually only assume...
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life, called domains, such as health, financial situation, job, leisure, housing, and environment. We postulate a two … income. The model is estimated using a large German panel data set.<P>This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the …
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Is working more than monetary income? This paper attempts to give an answer to this question on the basis of the German … Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same … household income, the monetary value of participating in the labour force is assessed. It is found that this monetary value is …
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See also the article 'Religion and income: heterogeneity between countries' in the <I>Journal of Economic Behavior and … respect to the influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First … countries. We estimate simultaneously an income and a religion equation to correct for the endogeneity of religiosity. We find …
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