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Who compares to whom? : the anatomy of income comparisons in Europe

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2009

This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...

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A note on unhappiness and unemployment duration

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2006

Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is used to shed light on this issue; these data...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003490824

Minimum wage systems and earnings inequalities : does institutional diversity matter?

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2014

This paper explores how the diversity of minimum wage systems affects earnings inequalities within European countries. It relies on the combination of (a) harmonized micro-data from household surveys, (b) data on national statutory minimum wages and coverage rates, and (c) hand-collected...

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Heterogeneity in reported well-being : evidence from twelve European countries

Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent class techniques applied to panel data from twelve European countries. Introducing both intercept and slope heterogeneity into this relationship, we strongly reject the hypothesis that individuals transform...

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Educational and skills mismatches : unravelling their effects on wages across Europe

Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2022

This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest a wage...

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The over-education wage penalty among PhD holders : a European perspective

Rycx, François; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022

holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and the UK), but also by estimating their wage penalty relative to what they could …

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Sharp teeth or empty mouths? : revisiting the minimum wage bite with sectoral data

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2013

The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and exploit unique data covering 17 European countries and information from more than 1100...

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Occupational status and life satisfaction in the UK : the miserable middle?

Georgellis, Yannis; Clark, Andrew E.; Apergis, Emmanuel; … - 2022

We use British panel data to explore the link between occupational status and life satisfaction. We find puzzling evidence, for men, of a U-shaped relationship in cross-section data: employees in medium-status occupations report lower life satisfaction scores than that of employees in either...

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Who got the brexit blues? : using a quasi-experiment to show the effect of brexit on subjective wellbeing in the uk

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Plagnol, Anke C.; Frijters, Paul; … - 2017

wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a … preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied with life pre-referendum, with both misery (life satisfaction below … respondents who reported a preference for leaving the EU. However, adaptation to the Brexit result appears to be complete three …

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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries

Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018

This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...

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