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Cross sections are history
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
and a unique rate of diffusion throughout the world. Suppose too that initially all countries are fairly closely bunched … follower countries in the various parts of the world fall in line in a similar geographic order. The result will be …
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
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Different versions of the Easterlin Paradox : new evidence for European countries
Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2018
Richer people are happier than poorer people, but when a country becomes richer over time, its people do not become happier. This seemingly contradictory pair of findings of Richard Easterlin has be-come famous as the Easterlin Paradox. However, it was met with counterevidence. To shed more...
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Investment climate and employment growth : the impact of access to finance, corruption and regulations across firms
Aterido, Reyes (contributor);  … - 2007
, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at … face greater interruptions in infrastructure services. Larger firms spend significantly more time dealing with officials … growth of all firms, particularly micro and small firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure …
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Economic growth and subjective well-being : reassessing the easterlin paradox
Stevenson, Betsey (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2008
The "Easterlin paradox" suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003752845
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Happiness and growth the world over : time series evidence on the happiness-income paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - 2009
There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately - 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition - and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time series...
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Relative income, happiness and utility : an explanation for the Easterlin paradox and other puzzles
Clark, Andrew E. (contributor); Frijters, Paul (contributor) - 2007
The well-known Easterlin paradox points out that average happiness has remained constant over time despite sharp rises in GNP per head. At the same time, a micro literature has typically found positive correlations between individual income and individual measures of subjective well-being. This...
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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - 2010
We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007836
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152425
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The role of income and immigration policies in attracting international migrants
Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - 2012
This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for the period 1980-2006. We also collect data on...
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