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This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. SWB is measured using individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) which asks respondents to rate their overall life satisfaction....
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This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. SWB is measured using individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) which asks respondents to rate their overall life satisfaction....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264781
Economists' two main theoretical approaches to understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts have been the task-approach to labor markets and endogenous growth theory. Therefore, the recent integration of the task-approach into an endogenous growth model by Acemoglu and Restrepo (AR) is a...
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sports for student-athletes. Anecdotal evidence about the exploitation of student-athletes was cited in the opinion and the …
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Despite the large individual benefits of guest work by the poor in rich countries, agencies charged with global poverty reduction do little to facilitate guest work. This may be because guest work is viewed as a repugnant transaction – one whose harmful side-effects might cause third parties...
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exploitation to occur, we find that agent compliance is significantly lower for exploitative principals who use high … from them. To corroborate our interpretation of the results we show that a surveyed exploitation aversion scale moderates … this effect. Exploitation averse participants are less likely to comply with the incentives than exploitation tolerant …
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Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday … language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare … distinctions that common usage of the term exploitation allows. I resolve this conflict by introducing a welfare function with …
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Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday … language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare … distinctions that common usage of the term exploitation allows. I resolve this conflict by introducing a welfare function with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668527
exploitation to occur, we find that agent compliance is significantly lower for exploitative principals who use high … from them. To corroborate our interpretation of the results we show that a surveyed "exploitation aversion" scale moderates … this effect. Exploitation averse participants are less likely to comply with the incentives than exploitation tolerant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010680481
Western cities are increasingly ethnically diverse and in most cities the share of ethnic minorities is growing. Studies analyzing changing ethnic geographies often limit their analysis to changes in ethnic concentrations in neighborhoods between two points in time. Such a static approach limits...
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