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Health inequalities through the lens of health capital theory : issues, solutions, and future directions
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191397
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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas
Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338674
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Incentivizing creativity : a large-scale experiment with tournaments and gifts
Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne; Warnke, Arne - 2016
incentives and wage gifts on creativity. We find that tournaments substantially increase creative output, with no evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479746
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The wage penalty of dialect-speaking
Ours, Jan C. van; Yao, Yuxin - 2016
Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10.6% for males and 6.7% for females. If we take into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556227
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Language proficiency of migrants : the relation with job satisfaction and skill matching
Bloemen, Hans G. - 2014 - This version November 2014
We empirically analyze the language proficiency of migrants in the Netherlands. Traditionally, the emphasis in studying … language proficiency and economic outcomes has been on the relation between earnings and indicators for language proficiency … language and job level. A lack of language skills may induce the migrant to work in jobs of a lower level leading to lower job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433898
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The structure of German well-being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000168254
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Abolishing GDP
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003423017
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Welfare in village and towns : micro-measurement of poverty and inequality
Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Jean Olson; Lanjouw, Peter - 2000
We construct and derive the properties of an estimator of welfarewhich takes advantage of the detailed nature of information about living standards available in small household surveys and the comprehensive coverage of a census. By combining the strengths of each, our estimator can be used at a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303309
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303878
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Subjective questions to measure welfare and well-being
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326409