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of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital … and Pakes (1996), which corrects for simultaneity bias. Furthermore, we allow selection to reform to be endogenous, and … correct for this selection bias by formulating an entry rule to reform similar to the Olley and Pakes (1996) exit rule. We …
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Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …
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quality played an important role in raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997 …
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As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working conditions of temps, specifically their remuneration, has intensified recently. Using administrative data, the paper shows that the wage gap for German temp workers is rather large and...
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Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental … income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid scheme and a reform of the student aid scheme to identify the effect of …
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While there is now something of a consensus in the literature on the economics of happiness that income comparisons to others help determine subjective wellbeing, debate continues over the relative importance of own and reference-group income, in particular in research on the Easterlin paradox....
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Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … sample. No effects on life satisfaction can be found except for underweight men. They reveal less satisfaction. Only in the …
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: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction …
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Previous empirical work has shown that the self-employed are generally more satisfied than salaried workers. This paper contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data from the ECHP and British data from the BHPS, we investigate the domains over which this...
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Socio-Economic Panel and estimate the substitution by a CES-utility function of general utility/satisfaction. Given this …
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