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The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction : empirical evidence and theoretical implications
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2001
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction are explored. First, it is empirically established that current job satisfaction rises with absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. Second, a basic job satisfaction function is constructed based on the empirical results, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404103
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"Beauty is the promise of happiness"?
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Abrevaya, Jason - 2011
We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true effects of beauty on happiness. Personal beauty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235144
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The effect of sexual activity on wages
Drydakis, Nick - 2013
The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate … potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this …'s set of productive traits that affect wages. Using two stage estimations we examine the relationship between adult sexual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783674
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Employment, wages, and alcohol consumption in Russia : evidence from panel data
Tekin, Erdal - 2002
This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406614
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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063244
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Immigrant assimilation and welfare participation : do immigrants assimilate into or out-of welfare
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990's. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent...
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Labor market conditions and post-reform declines in welfare receipt among immigrants
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bean, Frank D. - 2001
Considerable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extent changes in welfare policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation in welfare programs, although only post-1996 immigrants were explicitly targeted by most of the changes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403338
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Fighting poverty : assessing the effect of guaranteed minimum income proposals in Québec
Clavet, Nicholas-James; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Lacroix, Guy - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket Measure (MBM). Workers with earnings at least equivalent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721328
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Do former college athletes earn more at work? : A nonparametric assessment
Henderson, Daniel J. (contributor);  … - 2005
significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic participation is a significant determinant of wages. Additionally, by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003222510
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Convergence over time or not? : U.S. wages by sexual orientation, 2001-2018
Jepsen, Christopher; Jepsen, Lisa K. - 2020
An extensive literature on labor-market outcomes by sexual orientation finds lower wages for gay men compared to … heterosexual men and higher wages for lesbians compared to heterosexual women. Recent work looking over multiple time periods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253463