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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisonsand their Welfare Effects

Senik, Claudia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper provides unheard direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect onsubjective well-being. It also evaluates the relative importance of different types ofbenchmarks...

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Determinants of Poverty during Transition:Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine

Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty inUkraine during transition … various poverty lines... …

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Analysing the Effects of Tax-Benefit Reforms onIncome Distribution: A Decomposition Approach

Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposingchanges in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax …

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Do Europe’s Minimum Income Schemes ProvideAdequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis andHow, If at All, Have Governments Responded?

Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changesthat have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens withadequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on datafor 24 European Union countries,...

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Evolution and the Growth Process:Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

economic development and the dynamics of inequality withinand across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonicallyin the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growthpromoting traits … process of economic development. Inmature stages of development, however, risk-averse traits gained an evolutionary advantage …

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Employment and Education Policy for YoungPeople in the EU: What Can New Member StatesLearn from Old Member States?

Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launchand re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy and the Bologna process. A dramatic shift has takenplace from the 1990s emphasis on labour market flexibility as a tool to abate youth long termunemployment to the more...

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Estimating the Need for PhDs in theAcademic Sector via a Survey of Employers

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Kanep, Hanna - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The aim of the current paper is to estimate the need for new PhDs in the Estonian academicsector for the 5-year period 2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities,institutions of applied higher education and research institutes. The doctoral workforce in allcountries around the...

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Time-to-Degree and the Business Cycle

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

When students themselves enjoy large degrees of freedom in determining the duration oftheir studies, it results in a fairly large degree of interindividual variance in terms of time-todegree.This paper investigates individual time-to-degree in a model where studentsdetermine the optimum...

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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performancein the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence

Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-workerpay and establishment performance using the matched employer-employee data in WERS2004, the panel dataset 1998-2004 and the new Financial Performance Questionnaire...<br<

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Overcrowding in British Cities in 1904

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper presents an analysis of housing conditions amongst the British urban workingclass in 1904, using a re-discovered survey.1 We investigate overcrowding and we find majorregional differences...

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