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Social comparisons, health and well-being

Clark, Andrew E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

other individuals in the same personal, geographic or social networks, with the comparisons referring either to income or … other aspects of economic and social life. The existence of such comparison effects with respect to income may help to …

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Money, well-being and loss aversion: does an income loss have a greater effect on well-being than an equivalent income gain?

Banks, James; Brown, Gordon D.A.; Boyce, Christopher J.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Higher income is associated with greater well-being, but do income gains and losses impact on well-being differently … falls in income have a larger impact on well-being than equivalent income gains. The effect is not explained by the … diminishing returns to well-being of income. Our findings show that loss aversion applies to experienced losses, counteracting …

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Adaptation to poverty in long-run panel data

Clark, Andrew E.; D’Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...

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Dual employment protection and (lack of) on-the-job training : PIAAC evidence for Spain and other European countries

Cabrales, Antonio; Dolado, Juan J.; Mora, Ricardo - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 8 (2017) 4, pp. 345-371

how having a temporary contract in Spain is associated to lower levels of on-the-job training (OJT). Next, we find that … in the PIAAC study. Although we choose Spain as a case study of a dual labor market, we also provide cross …

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Does dual employment protection affect TFP? : evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms

Dolado, Juan J.; Ortigueira, Salvador; Stucchi, Rodolfo - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 7 (2016) 4, pp. 421-459

This paper analyzes how changes in the firing-costs gap between permanent and temporary workers affect firms’ TFP in a dual labour market. We argue that, under plausible conditions, firms’ temp-to-perm conversion rates go down when this gap increases. Temporary workers respond to lower...

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Revisiting the publicprivate wage gap in Spain : new evidence and interpretation

León, Alba Couceiro de; Dolado, Juan J. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 3/4, pp. 353-377

This paper updates the available evidence on the public-private wage gap in Spain, which dates back to 2012. Through … distribution by gender and education have evolved during and after the Great Recession. Conventional Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions …

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