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Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
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Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow : income and risky choices amongst young adults in the UK
Coppola, Gianluigi; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Pinto, Claudio - 2015
In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … that there are substantial differences between the permanent and transitory income determinants - also in terms of the … direction of the effects. Moreover, we find that income effects often differ significantly in size and sometimes sign according …
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The income portfolio of immigrants in Germany : effects of ethnic origin and assimilation or: who gains from income re-distribution?
Frick, Joachim R.; Büchel, Felix - 2000
market and non-market income as well as taxes and social security contributions. This income portfolio analysis is based on … have an even better relative income position than the autochthonous West German population. In general, we confirm the well … profit slightly. This is due to above average non-market income of "pure" immigrants. However, East Germans are still much …
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Individual behavior as a pathway between early-life shocks and adult health : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - 2013
hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204606
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Happy people have children : choice and self-selection into parenthood
Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2016
age of 30 and who have higher income. We also provide evidence of a positive selection into parenthood, whereby happier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457380
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Income receipt and mortality : evidence from Swedish public sector employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2014
is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience liquidity …
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Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically? : an illustration with German data
Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014
We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index …, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann …
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Life satisfaction, income and personality
Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - 2015
We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality … traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, which measures sensitivity to threat and … usually observed concavity of the relationship: individuals with a higher neuroticism score enjoy extra income more than those …
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Paradox lost?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2016
Or Paradox Regained? The answer is Paradox Regained. New data confirm that for countries worldwide long-term trends in happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a different conclusion, aside from problems of data...
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Estimating the effect of income on health and mortality using lottery prizes as exogenous source of variation in income
Lindahl, Mikael - 2002
A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation … that is due to a truly exogenous factor: the monetary lottery prizes of individuals. The findings are that higher income …
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