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Approval of equal rights and gender differences in well-being
Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens' approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that "women and men shall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450210
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Hong Kong output dynamics : an empirical analysis
Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2001
Advanced statistical techniques are used to analyze Hong Kong output dynamics. Hong Kong, Japan and the U.S. are found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398863
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The stagnation of household consumption in Japan
Horioka, Charles - 2004
-long recession in Japan during the 1990s and early 2000s and the reasons for the stagnation of household consumption during this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402668
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Will stability last?
Martin, Will (contributor); Rowthorn, Bob (contributor) - 2004
the last decade. Using stylised models of the economies of the US, Euro area, UK and Japan, we argue that economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002521030
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The macroeconomic policy challenges of balance sheet recession : lessons from Japan for the European crisis
Schnabl, Gunther - 2013
The paper compares the boom-and-bust cycles in Japan and Europe with respect to the reasons for excessive booms, the … characteristics of the crises, and the (potential) effects of the crisis therapies. As in Japan the consequence of expansionary … well as gradual real income losses, the economic policy implication for Japan and Europe is the timely exit from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743745
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Real effects of quantitative easing at the zero-lower bound : structural VAR-based evidence from Japan
Schenkelberg, Heike; Watzka, Sebastian - 2011
. These results are interesting not only for Japan, but also for other advanced economies where monetary policy is currently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130244
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The signaling effects of fiscal announcements
Melosi, Leonardo; Morita, Hiroshi; Rogantini Picco, Anna; … - 2024
. Analysis of a new dataset of daily stock prices and fiscal news in Japan supports these predictions. We introduce a method to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015052575
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The cost of well-being
Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015
Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305432
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Quality of life in a dynamic spatial model
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; … - 2020
We develop a dynamic spatial model in which heterogeneous workers are imperfectly mobile and forward-looking and yet all structural fundamentals can be inverted without assuming that the economy is in a stationary spatial equilibrium. Exploiting this novel feature of the model, we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388100
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A happy way to grow old? : grandparent caregiving, quality of life and life satisfaction
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi - 2019
Utilizing the 2015 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) that covers 7045 households, we study the effect of grandparents looking after grandchildren on quality of life and life satisfaction of grandparents. We find evidence of important favorable effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024588