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with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany … countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain … and Hungary), non-durable consumption expenditures also prove at least as important to happiness as income. Further …
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Empirical studies on the relationship between income and happiness commonly use standard ordered response models, the … probability effects by design, and therefore limit the analysis of distributional aspects of a change in income, that is, the … study of whether the income effect depend on a person's happiness. In this paper we pinpoint the shortcomings of standard …
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A large literature has documented a significant increase in the return to college over the past 30 years. This increase is typically measured using nominal wages. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have increasingly concentrated in metropolitan areas that are characterized by a...
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income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study …: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction … with income is more affected by ex ante than by ex post volatility of income. The ordinal version of the Van Praag approach …
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Many scholars have argued that once basic needs have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in … well-being, we find no support for this claim. The relationship between well-being and income is roughly linear-log and …
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in the sample who obtained income from self‐employment or from owning a business. Social capital is proxied by responses … either personal income or by an Economic Living Standards Index (ELSI) score developed by the New Zealand Ministry of Social …
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characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events using data from the Household Income … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has …
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This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …
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Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...
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a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania containing detailed information from the startup date through 2001. We …
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