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Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being – solidarity (S) and agency (A) – to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180191
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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931695
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The link between the intrinsic motivation to comply and compliance behavior: A critical appraisal of existing evidence
Halla, Martin - 2010
Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of research aims to identify factors that affect the intrinsic motivation to comply. However, the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269887
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Tax morale and compliance behavior: First evidence on a causal link
Halla, Martin - 2010
Recent literature on tax evasion emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior. As a consequence scholars aim to identify factors that shape this so-called tax morale. However, the causal link between tax morale and actual compliance behavior is not established...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269890
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Tax Morale and Compliance Behavior: First Evidence on a Causal Link
Halla, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Recent literature on tax evasion emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior. As a consequence scholars aim to identify factors that shape this so-called tax morale. However, the causal link between tax morale and actual compliance behavior is not established...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506077
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The Link between the Intrinsic Motivation to Comply and Compliance Behavior: A Critical Appraisal of Existing Evidence
Halla, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Recent economic literature emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior with respect to underground activities such as tax evasion. A considerable amount of research aims to identify factors that affect the intrinsic motivation to comply. However, the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568270
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Social Capital and the Spread of COVID-19: Insights from European Countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020
We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one standard deviation increase in social capital leads to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269988
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Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination
Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - 2014
point. Splitting the sample by income inequality suggests that increased inequality reduces the ability to emigrate. The … channeled more productively into education and also lead to a fall in inequality which would reduce emigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352310
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Do institutions have a greater effect on female entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009
This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies between 1998 and 2004. We test four hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269391
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Shadow Economies around the World : What Do We Know?
Schneider, Friedrich G.; Klinglmair, Robert - 2004
Using various statistical procedures, estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 110 developing, transition and OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 1999-2000 in developing countries is 41%, in transition countries 38% and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276569