gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have notably lower employment rates and earnings than men, even though … earnings gaps are higher in self-employment than in wage employment. Tertiary education and urban location account for a large … part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …

employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration decisions, we instrument for oil and gas production in workers …’ state of residence via the predicted percent of oil and gas employment in their state of birth. We find statistically …

, as incomes rise throughout the population, the incomes of one's comparison group rise along with one's own income and …The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason …

influence function regression of inequality measures corroborate that self-employment is a source of income inequality in the …It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in …

waves to estimate how regional population reacts to asymmetric shocks. These shocks are measured by non-employment rates … regions as identifying information. Because we include region and time effects, we interpret regression-adjusted population … most striking difference is that, in India, we do not find any significant reactions to asymmetric non-employment shocks at …

This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be … associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the … period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that a ten percentage-point increase in the share of the non-White population …

Nations World Population Policies database, and the World Bank World Development Indicators for the period 1976 through 2013 …

Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result … increase the labor force and broaden the tax base. Increasing immigration has a variety of effects on the local population … attractiveness of immigration as a solution to population ageing. This paper examines immigration as a solution to the problem of …