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Inequality and Happiness : When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2010

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of individual labor-market participation under...

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

Chadi, Adrian - 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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The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption : Evidence from a 'Xeroxed' Exam

Borcan, Oana - 2013

This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to an income loss. We exploit an unexpected 25% wage cut incurred …-stake exam taking place shortly after the wage announcement. To measure corruption we compare changes in exam outcomes from 2009 … induced better exam outcomes in public than in private schools and we attribute this difference to increased corruption by …

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One Size Fits All? Decentralization, Corruption, and the Monitoring of Bureaucrats

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2021

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …

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Corruption and the Shadow Economy : An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy …

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Using Real-Time Data to Test for Political Budget Cycles

Jong-A-Pin, Richard - 2012

We use real‐time annual data on the fiscal balance, government current spending, current revenues and net capital outlays as published at a half yearly frequency in the OECD Economic Outlook for 25 OECD countries. For each fiscal year t we have a number of forecasts, a first release, and...

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Outside Earnings, Absence, and Activity : Evidence from German Parliamentarians

Arnold, Felix - 2014

We examine moonlighting by politicians in Germany. In July 2007, the German Supreme Court adjudicated that members of parliament (MPs) have to publish details of their outside earnings. Using panel data models, we investigate how outside earnings are correlated with absence and parliamentary...

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Corruption and natural resource rents : evidence from quantile regression

Okada, Keisuke; Samreth, Sovannroeun - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 20, pp. 1490-1493

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Hypertension and life satisfaction : an analysis using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

Mojon-Azzi, Stefania; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - In: Applied economics letters 18 (2011) 1/3, pp. 183-187

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Impact of income and unemployment on happiness : panel data evidence for European countries

Cimpoeru, Smaranda - In: Applied economics letters 30 (2023) 8, pp. 1047-1051

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