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The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition … using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of … various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in the literature …
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This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others' incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...
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This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous labor demand shock that affects wages in voluntary and involuntary labor relations differently....
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …
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