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Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Abrevaya, Jason - 2011

We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true effects of beauty on happiness. Personal beauty...

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The effect of sexual activity on wages

Drydakis, Nick - 2013

The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate … potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this …'s set of productive traits that affect wages. Using two stage estimations we examine the relationship between adult sexual …

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Intergenerational earnings mobility among the children of Canadian immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman (contributor); … - 2006

We analyze the intergenerational income mobility of Canadians born to immigrants using the 2001 Census. A detailed portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants from 70 countries. The degree of persistence...

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State dependence in Canadian welfare participation

Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using longitudinal data extracted from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for the years...

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Labor supply responses to learning the tax and benefit schedule

Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Myhre, Andreas S. - 2020

While optimization frictions have been shown to attenuate earnings responses to financial incentives, less is understood about the individual factors shaping the response. The main contribution of this paper is to separately quantify the role of learning the tax and benefit schedule versus other...

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Fighting poverty : assessing the effect of guaranteed minimum income proposals in Québec

Clavet, Nicholas-James; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Lacroix, Guy - 2013

This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket Measure (MBM). Workers with earnings at least equivalent to...

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Job satisfaction and coworker pay in Canadian firms

Javdani, Mohsen; Krauth, Brian - 2019

One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute income, but also their income relative to various reference groups (e.g. co-workers, friends, neighbors, relatives, etc.). We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to estimate...

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Whose preferences are revealed in hours of work?

Pencavel, John H. - 2015

It has become orthodox in economics research to interpret the association between hourly earnings and working hours as the expression of the preferences of workers. This convention originated in H. Gregg Lewis' explanation for the decline in hours of work since the nineteenth century. His...

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Structural labor supply models and wage exogeneity

Löffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014

elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be explained by modeling assumptions with respect to wages. Specifically … very sensitive to the treatment of wages. In particular, the often-made but highly restrictive independence assumption … between preferences and wages is key. To overcome this restriction, we propose a flexible estimation strategy that nests …

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Labor market transparency

Wadensjö, Eskil - 2013

The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....

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