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‘Tiger-Hunting’ and Life Satisfaction : A Matter of Trust

Zhang, Youxing; Hetschko, Clemens; Howley, Peter - 2022

political support. Combining data on the public disclosure of anti-corruption efforts and individual well-being in China, we …

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Tiger-Hunting' and Life Satisfaction: A Matter of Trust

Zhang, Youxing; Howley, Peter; Hetschko, Clemens - 2022

political support. Combining data on the public disclosure of anti-corruption efforts and individual well-being in China, we …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470317

The Impact of Government Size on Corruption: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Bonanno, Graziella; Errico, Lucia; Fiorino, Nadia; … - 2024

We perform a Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA) of the literature on government size and corruption, examining 450 …-sectional data. Moreover, the type of indicator used to measure corruption has a significant impact on the sign of the relationship … significant results, whereas we find a positive relationship between the countries' corruption index and the effect size. …

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The Historical Roots of Corruption and Economic Development in Italy

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2013

social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We … test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces, and address the possible endogeneity of corruption by applying an … IV model. We use three sets of historical instruments for corruption: 1) foreign dominations in 16th-17th century, 2 …

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Looking Back in Anger? Retirement and Unemployment Scarring

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2014

Previous studies find that past unemployment reduces life satisfaction even after reemployment for non-monetary reasons (unemployment scarring). It is not clear, however, whether this scarring is only caused by employment-related factors, such as worsened working conditions, or increased future...

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Changing identity: Retiring from unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...

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Income or Leisure? On the Hidden Benefits of (Un-)Employment

Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2017

We study the usually assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions using comprehensive German panel data. We compare non-employed individuals after plant closures with employed people regarding both income and time use as well as their subjective perceptions of these two...

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How Job Changes Affect People's Lives - Evidence from Subjective Well-being Data

Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2016

For representative German panel data, we show that voluntary job switching leads to relatively high levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion interacts negatively with this effect in life...

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Income Support, (Un-)Employment and Well-Being

Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016

Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the nonpecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...

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Term limits: do they really affect fiscal policy choices?

Dalle Nogare, Chiara; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2008

According to reputational models of political economy, a term limit may change the behavior of a chief executive because he does not have to stand for election. We test this hypothesis in a sample of 52 countries over the period 1977-2000, using government spending, social and welfare spending...

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