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Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States
Lin, Carl - 2013
mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086220
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One Country, Two Systems : Evidence on Retirement Patterns in China
Giles, John; Lei, Xiaoyan; Wang, Gewei; Wang, Stephen Yafeng - 2021
This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark differences in retirement ages between … urban and rural residents, the paper shows that China's urban residents retire earlier than workers in many OECD countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212253
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The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes : An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts
Koning, Pierre - 2013
This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of unemployed and disabled workers. WTW-organizations did not only bid on prices, but also received points for three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088652
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Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2020
To compare distributions of ordinal data such as individuals' responses on Likert-type scale variables summarizing subjective well-being, we should not apply the toolbox of methods developed for cardinal variables such as income. Instead we should use an analogous toolbox which takes account of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838490
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Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2019
Non-intersection of appropriately-defined Generalized Lorenz (GL) curves is equivalent to a unanimous ranking of distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL curve areas. Comparisons of life satisfaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857839
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Conspicuous Consumption in the United States and China
Jinkins, David Carson - 2014
I develop a model of conspicuous consumption to empirically measure the importance of peer beliefs to Americans and Chinese. In the model, a consumer cares not only about the direct utility she receives from consumption, but also about the way her consumption pattern affects her peer group's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050618
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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are...
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Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias : Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?
Snowberg, Erik C. - 2011
The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning - longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133624
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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies
Heineck, Guido - 2010
What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137530
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The Effects of Tax Salience and Tax Experience on Individual Work Efforts in a Framed Field Experiment
Fochmann, Martin - 2011
the tax. We conjecture that tax perception depends on the tax rate, the presentation of the tax and the experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119014