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Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2011

This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121335

Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2012

This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096470

Former Communist Party Membership and Present-Day Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2019

After the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, former party members were particularly likely to start businesses and become entrepreneurs. However, it remains unclear whether this entrepreneurial activity was driven by the resources, information and opportunities provided by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859290

How Important are Labor Market Institutions for Labor Market Performance in Transition Countries?

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2010

This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional transformations. Based...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149510

Mother Africa's Exceptionalism? Income and Fertility Redux

Gradstein, Mark; Ishak, Phoebe - 2022

We revisit the effect of long run income growth on population fertility in some of the poorest countries in the world …. Using various fertility measures as outcomes, we find that long run income growth significantly and robustly reduces … fertility. Further analysis suggests that young women's fertility is particularly affected and that women's education; age of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083711

Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132818

Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects

De Neve, Jan‐Emmanuel - 2012

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue across the social, psychological, and behavioral sciences. Much research has found that richer people tend to be happier. However, relatively little attention has been paid to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096474

Subjective Well-Being in China, 2005-2010 : The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2016

We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001231

Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses

Frick, Joachim R. - 2009

Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153168

Happiness in Europe : Cross-Country Differences in the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being

Pedersen, Peder J. - 2009

The purpose in the present paper is to use individual panel data in the European Community Household Panel to analyse the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the ongoing discussion of the relationship between life...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154979

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