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Money and happiness : evidence from the industry wage structure
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2011
There is a well-established positive correlation between life-satisfaction measures and income in individual level … estimates suggesting that most of the association of income and well-being is causal. -- life satisfaction ; well-being … from money to happiness. I use industry wage differentials as instruments for income. This is based on the idea that at …
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The role of body weight for health, earnings and life satisfaction
Hübler, Olaf - 2019
analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over …
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Dynamic wage bargaining if benefits are tied to individual wages
Beissinger, Thomas; Egger, Hartmut - 2001
In dynamic wage bargaining models it is usually assumed that individual unemployment benefits are a fraction of the average wage level. In most countries, however, unemployment benefits are instead tied to the previous level of individually earned wages. We show how the analysis has to be...
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A positive theory of the earnings relationship of unemployment benefits
Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2007
Evidently, the benefit-structure of the unemployment insurance has a significant influence on profits and trade union utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment benefits may reduce wages and increase employment. This raises the question as...
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Earnings-related unemployment benefits in a unionised economy
Goerke, Laszlo (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Job levels and wages
Bayer, Christian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2023
Job levels summarize the complexity, autonomy, and responsibility of task execution. Conceptually, job levels are related to the organization of production, are distinct from occupations, and can be constructed from data on task execution. We highlight their empirical role in matched...
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Equalizing wage differences and bargaining power : evidence from a panel of French firms
Cahuc, Pierre; Gianella, Christian; Goux, Dominique; … - 2002
equalizing differences: workers who take into account their intertemporal discounted income will support lower wages when they …
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Economic pluralism in the study of wage discrimination : a note
Drydakis, Nick - 2018
Economic pluralism proposes that economists and social planners should consider alternative theories to establish a range of policy actions. Neoclassical, Feminist and Marxian theories evaluate well-grounded causes of wage discrimination. Racist attitudes, uncertainties regarding minority...
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The rules of game : local wage bargaining and the gender pay gap
Olsson, Maria; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2024
We study how local bargaining institutions affect the within-job gender wage gap among Swedish blue collar workers. Collective agreements with varying degrees of local flexibility tend to cover blue-collar workers across different occupations within the same firm. As a consequence, workers...
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Just the facts, ma'am : postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the US
Holzer, Harry J.; Dunlop, Erin - 2013
labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program … low-income families or with weak academic achievement in high school. Young women (especially among whites and blacks) now …
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