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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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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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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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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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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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Vacation leave, work hours and wages : new evidence from linked employer-employee data

Fakih, Ali - 2014

wages by examining the case of Canada. Previous studies from the US, using individual level data, have revealed that annual …

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Commitment and the dynamics of household labor supply

Theloudis, Alexandros; Velilla, Jorge; Chiappori, … - 2022

The extent to which individuals commit to their partner for life has important implications. This paper develops a lifecycle collective model of the household, through which it characterizes behavior in three prominent alternative types of commitment: full, limited, and no commitment. We propose...

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The effect of wages on job vacancy duration : evidence from a spatial discontinuity

Carter, Charles; Delaney, Judith; Papps, Kerry L. - 2024

We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the wages paid by the United Kingdom's National Health Service to examine how … wages affect the duration of time a vacancy is advertised. NHS workers in inner London are mandated by law to be paid an … duration with respect to wages of -6.3. This number is larger than reported by previous studies and suggests that firms can …

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