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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables
Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021
addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650402
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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022
Measuring the intergenerational mobility of welfare provides key inputs for policies, but very few studies examine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254144
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Life satisfaction, subjective wealth, and adaptation to vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020
vulnerability spells being associated with more negative subjective welfare. Similar results hold for other outcomes including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174903
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Is happiness U-shaped everywhere? : age and subjective well-being in 145 countries
Blanchflower, David G. - 2020
A large empirical literature has debated the U-shaped happiness-age curve. This paper re-examines the relationship between various measures of well-being and age in one hundred and forty-five countries, including one hundred and nine developing countries, controlling for education, marital and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208787
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Intergenerational mobility : an assessment for Latin American countries
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Yavuz, Hasan Bilgehan; Pastore, … - 2019
have a stagnant economy coupled with high income inequality. Our rich and detailed dataset, the IPUMS survey data bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159827
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Life dissatisfaction and anxiety in COVID-19 pandemic
Pedraza, Pablo de; Guzi, Martin; Tijdens, Kea Gartje - 2020
The rising numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths, prolonged lockdowns, substantial restrictions on public life and an economic downturn negatively affect personal well-being. In this paper, we explore COVID- 19-related determinants of life dissatisfaction and feelings of anxiety using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012220789
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The morality of markets : a comment
Ponthiere, Gregory; Stevens, Nicolas - 2024
Dewatripont and Tirole (2024) defend the morality of markets on the ground of an irrelevance result: the social production of moral actions is independent from competitive pressure on markets. No matter how strong competitive pressure is, markets perform well in diffusing signals about moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014556837
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Will the remote work revolution undermine progressive state income taxes?
Agrawal, David R.; Stark, Kirk J. - 2022
The remote work revolution raises the possibility that a much larger segment of the population will be able to sever the geographic linkage between home and work. This new development implicates several foundational questions in the law and economics of U.S. fiscal federalism. What are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259472
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The fiscal impact of immigration in the EU
Christl, Michael; Bélanger, Alain; Conte, Alessandra; … - 2021
immigrants contribute their ”fair” share to their host country tax and welfare system. This paper seeks to answer this question … about 250 euro per year more than natives to the welfare state in 2015. However, when we take an average age-specific life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497196
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The composition effects of tax-based consolidations on income inequality
Ciminelli, Gabriele; Ernst, Ekkehard; Giuliodori, Massimo; … - 2017
income disparities, policy-makers have fretted about the inequality effects of fiscal consolidations. We shed new light on … this issue by empirically investigating the (composition) effects of tax-based consolidations on income inequality, output …-based consolidations reduce income inequality, but at the cost of weaker economic activity. However, tax composition does matter. Indirect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110383