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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction

Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...

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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism

Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006

This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat … the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman Empire's territorial expansion in Eastern Europe. Various historical … rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …

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Ambition and jealousy : income interactions in the "old" Europe versus the "new" Europe and the United States

Senik-Leygonie, Claudia (contributor) - 2006

This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation depends on the degree of mobility and uncertainty in the economy. It mostly concentrates on the relation between satisfaction and reference income (defined as the income of...

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Female labor market transitions in Europe

Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2006

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...

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Comparing the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics in Europe and the USA

Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor); … - 2008

received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the …

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External validation of the use of vignettes in cross-country health studies

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Kristensen, Nicolai; Pozzoli, Dario - 2009

Cross-country comparisons of subjective assessments are rendered difficult if not impossible because of sub-population specific response style. To correct for this, the use of vignettes has become increasingly popular, notably within cross-country health studies. However, the validity of...

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Imitative obesity and relative utility

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Van … - 2009

If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...

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What affects international migration of European science and engineering graduates?

Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier; Sauermann, Jan - 2009

Using a dataset of science and engineering graduates from 12 European countries, we analyse the determinants of labour migration after graduation. We find that not only wage gains are driving the migration decision, but also differences in labour market opportunities, past migration experience,...

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The Americanization of European higher education and research

Borghans, Lex; Cörvers, Frank - 2009

Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also … higher education in Europe and investigate potential explanations for the strong increase in its international orientation …

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The wage effects of social norms : evidence of deviations from peers' body-mass in Europe

Fahr, René (contributor) - 2006

"We investigate wage effects of deviations from peer group body mass index (BMI) to evaluate the influence of social norms on wages. Our approach allows for disentangling the influence of the social norm from any (anticipated) productivity effects associated with deviations from a clinically...

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