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Asymmetries in earnings, employment and wage risk in Great Britain
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Lazarakis, Spyridon; … - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between idiosyncratic risk in labour income and fluctuations in aggregate labour … BHPS sub-sample of Understanding Society for 2010-2014. We measure idiosyncratic risk in labour income by the relevant … moments of the distributions of earnings, employment and wage shocks across individuals. Our main finding is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624196
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Heterogeneous sports participation and labour market outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013 - This version: October 2013
different types of sports participation to initial access to employment and then higher income opportunities with ageing … employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199753
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Labor market effects of sports and exercise : evidence from Canadian panel data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014
-run income effects. However, an activity level above the current recommendation of the WHO for minimum physical activity is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250155
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The power of parties
Fiva, Jon H.; Folke, Olle; Sørensen, Rune Jorgen - 2013
As with the market for goods and services, democratic competition involves political parties offering their services (policy programs) to citizen-consumers who vote for their preferred partisan supplier. Little is known about the partial effect of a shift in parties' seat shares for given voter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009707614
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The size and scope of government in the US states : does party ideology matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
We investigate empirically how party ideology influences size and scope of government as measured by the size of government, tax structure and labor market regulation. Our dataset comprises 49 US states over the 1993-2009 period. We employ the new data on the ideological mapping of US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743769
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The Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state government
Cahan, Dodge; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
Higher economic growth was generated during Democratic presidencies compared to Republican presidencies in the United States. The question is why. Blinder and Watson (2016) explain that the Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap (D-R growth gap) can hardly be attributed to the policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663552
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Vote buying in the US Congress
Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019
We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103631
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Social interaction and urban sprawl
Brueckner, Jan K. (contributor); Largey, Ann G. (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003395414
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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524624
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Knowledge is power : a theory of information, income, and welfare spending
Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2011
. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also … in line with our theory. -- redistribution ; welfare spending ; information ; income ; voting ; political economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314546