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Happiness and the persistence of income shocks
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2012
We reassess the empirical effect of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a … do not. This has consequences also for inference about the happiness effect of employment. We find that employment per se …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575109
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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries
Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2008
, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652710
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The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk : a cross-country comparison
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009
This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896465
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How different are immigrants? : A cross-country and cross-survey analysis of educational achievement
Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
the USA. The first step of the analysis shows how far countries differ regarding immigrants' educational disadvantage. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002485607