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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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We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes … allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely … exogenous. Positive income shocks have no significant effect on general health, but a large positive effect on mental health …
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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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income and parental education) remain good predictors of well-being over 50 years later. In terms of the proximal covariates …
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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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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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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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