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Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? : Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2004
This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. One looks at two class of measures: wage differentials between workers along industry and firm size dimensions, and estimated welfare differences...
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International evidence on well-being
Blanchflower, David G. - 2008
. Higher inequality also lowers happiness. Third, we know little about the predictive power of the U-index. Happiness and life … paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely be … replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both measures happiness is higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271883
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Who compares to whom? The anatomy of income comparisons in Europe
Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - 2009
This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271306
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Increased opportunity to move up the economic ladder? Earnings mobility in EU ; 1994 - 2001
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009
. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among … countries where inequality decreased, short-term mobility increased in Denmark, Spain, Ireland and UK, and decreased in Belgium …
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Financial structure and income inequality
Brei, Michael; Ferri, Giovanni; Gambacorta, Leonardo - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098831
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? Evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...
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What makes a young entrepreneur?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007
This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people’s employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271876
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Unequal giving: monetary gifts to children across countries and over time
Zissimopoulos, Julie M.; Smith, James P. - 2010
Money parents give their adult children may be important for the financing of a child's education or a first home, relaxing binding credit constraints or responding to a transitory income shock. Financial transfers however, may extend economic disparities across generations if the wealthy...
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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van Soest, Arthur - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276704
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The lot of the unemployed: a time use perspective
Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268843