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Inertial credit and arrears in transition
Perotti, Enrico C. - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000922224
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Income satisfaction inequality and its causes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326418
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How important is methodology for the estimates of the determinants of happiness?
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Frijters, Paul - 2002
Psychologists and sociologists usually interpret answers to happiness surveys as cardinal and comparableacross respondents (Kahneman et al. 1999). As a result, these social scientists run OLS regressionson happiness and changes in happiness. Economists, on the other hand, usually only assume...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326407
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Intra-household work timing : the effect on joint activities and the demand for child care
Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; … - 2011
This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386431
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Unsuccessful subjective well-being assimilation among immigrants : the role of faltering perceptions of the host society
Hendriks, Martijn; Burger, Martijn J. - 2018
Immigrants in developed countries typically fail to assimilate in terms of subjective well-being, meaning that their happiness and life satisfaction do not substantially increase with their length of stay or across generations, and therefore their subjective well-being remains lower than that of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924808
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Estimating the skill bias in agglomeration externalities and social returns to education : evidence from Dutch matched worker-firm micro-data
Groot, Stefan P. T.; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2014
density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of … supply of university graduates on wages, i.e. the social return to education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374568
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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 … associated with workers hourly wages; the negative effect of routine tasks is most pronounced in high-skilled non …-intensity of the workers' own occupation in 1979. The estimation procedure rests on the assumption that the two instruments are …
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Cyclicality in losses on bank loans
Keijsers, Bart; Diris, Bart; Kole, Erik - 2015
Cyclicality in the losses of bank loans is important for bank risk management. Because loans have a different risk profile than bonds, evidence of cyclicality in bond losses need not apply to loans. Based on unique data we show that the default rate and loss given default of bank loans share a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515860
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Pro-cyclicality, empirical credit cycles, and capital buffer formation
Koopman, Siem Jan; Lucas, André; Klaassen, Pieter - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001718549
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The effect of search friction on wages
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vuuren, Aico van - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003383008