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Returns to routine job tasks in the German labour market : an instrumental variables approach
Mihaylov, Emil - 2021 - Revision November 2021
This paper studies the impact of routine job tasks on workers wages in the German labour market. Using nationally representative data from the German Employment Survey, the paper finds that routine job tasks are negatively and significantly associated with workers hourly wages; the negative...
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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326414
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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model for monetary appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
- Germany. We find, for instance, that for West-workers hearing impediments are on average equivalent to an income reduction of …
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Health, financial incentives and retirement in Spain
Erdogan-Ciftci, Esen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; López … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003774470
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Health and work of the elderly : subjective health measures, reporting errors and the endogenous relationship between health and work
Lindeboom, Maarten; Kerkhofs, Marcel - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001658968
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Optimal income taxation of married couples : an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation
Haan, Peter (contributor); Navarro, Dolores (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779678
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Happiness: revising set point theory and dynamic equilibrium theory to account for long term change
Headey, Bruce (contributor) - 2006
An adequate theory of happiness or subjective well-being (SWB) needs to link at least three sets of variables: stable … satisfaction. Using these data, the paper suggests a major revision to the set point or dynamic equilibrium theory of SWB in order … and Tellegen, 1996). Previously, theory focused on evidence that individuals have their own equilibrium level or set point …
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Labour supply and commuting : implications for optimal road taxes
Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - 2009
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Labour supply and commuting : implications for optimal road taxes
Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - 2009
distance using the socio-economic panel data for Germany between 1997 and 2007. Endogeneity of commuting distance is accounted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377565
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A structural model of well-being : with an application to German data
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2000
In this paper we attempt to explain individual, ordinally comparable,satisfaction levels. We postulate a simultaneous equation model where general satisfaction isexplained by exogenous shock and level variables, and by the values of the satisfactionswith respect to six distinct endogenous...
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