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Relative Income and Happiness : An Experiment
Ifcher, John - 2018
John Stuart Mill claimed that "men do not desire merely to be rich, but richer than other men." Do people desire to be richer than others? Or is it that people desire favorable comparisons to others more generally, and being richer is merely a proxy for this ineffable relativity? We conduct an...
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Diaspora transferts statut social et inégalité
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We consider a model that extends the scope of social preferences of the families of the migrants. This extension allows us to show that if some poor families receive remittances and social culture affects the composition of their consumption, then in presence of strong social inequality, poor...
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The Welfare Effects of Social Mobility: An Analysis for OECD countries.
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
-transfer than post-transfer income inequality suggesting that government redistribution disentangles the effect of income inequality …
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Trust in government and its effect on preferences for income redistribution and perceived tax burden
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
redistribution and individual perceptions regarding income tax burden. Three measures for trust in government are used: “trust in … individual characteristics, the key findings are: (1) people are more likely to express preferences for income redistribution …
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Effect of social capital on income distribution preferences: comparison of neighborhood externality between high- and low-income households
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper explores how individual preferences for income redistribution are influenced by social capital, which is … examine how social capital accumulated in residential areas influences an individual’s preference for income redistribution … income redistribution in areas with higher rates of community participation. This tendency is more clearly observed in high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216348
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Effect of social capital on income redistribution preferences: comparison of neighborhood externality between high- and low-income households
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper explores how individual preferences for income redistribution are influenced by social capital, which is … examine how social capital accumulated in residential areas influences an individual’s preference for income redistribution … income redistribution in areas with higher rates of community participation. This tendency is more clearly observed in high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647437
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Economic Security, Well Functioning Courts and a Good Government
mamoon, dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
redistribution takes place from rich to the poor. As a result income and wage inequalities fall down. …
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Good versus Bad Political Institutions and Economic Welfare
Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper finds that countries which practice democracy are less prone to unequal outcomes especially when it comes to wage inequality and income inequality whereas autocracy is associated with higher level of wage inequalities but its impact on income inequalities are insignificant. Though...
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Are Happiness and Productivity Lower Among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach
Proto, Eugenio - 2014
We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their children. Yet there has been almost no formal research into the important issue of how recent...
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Happiness and Productivity
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009
The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some subjects have their happiness levels increased, while those in a control group do not. Treated subjects have 12% greater productivity in a paid piece-rate Niederle-Vesterlund...
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