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This paper analyses the differential impact of human capital, in terms of different levels of schooling, on regional productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying spatial panel data techniques. The empirical...
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This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent class techniques applied to … strongly reject the hypothesis that individuals transform income into well-being in the same way. We show that both individual … marginal effect of income on well-being across classes will be reflected in both behaviour and preferences for redistribution. …
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We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we … take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. In six waves of … German Socio-Economic Panel data, the extent to which own labour income is perceived to be unfair is significantly negatively …
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...
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-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP …
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This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data … the steep pattern found for other countries, the flatter evolution of the gap in Spain hides a composition effect when the … gap at the top than at the bottom of the distribution, in accordance with the conventional glass ceiling hypothesis. On …
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The article examines public-private sector wage differentials in Spain using microdata from the Structure of Earnings … wage distribution, being negative for more highly skilled workers. …
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The objective of the study is to quantify the wage gap between native and immigrant women in Spain taking into account … the common support. In addition, we can describe not only differences at the mean, but along the entire wage distribution …
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In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover …
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This study examines wage differences across Spain's regions along the entire wage distribution based on matched … are generally very similar throughout the wage distribution and are strongly persistent over time, despite significant … changes in both economic cycle and labour regulations that occurred in Spain during the examined period. This evidence …
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