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World Database of happiness: Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’

Veenhoven, Ruut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Social scientists are producing an ever growing stream of research findings, which is ever more difficult to oversee. As a result, capitalization on earlier investment declines and accumulation of knowledge stagnates. This situation calls for more research synthesis and interest in synthetic...

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‘Williamson's Fallacy’ in Estimation of Inter-Regional Inequality

Gluschenko, Konstantin - 2017

When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...

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Education Inequality, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality : Evidence from Indonesia, 1996-2005

Digdowiseiso, Kumba - 2010

This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...

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Structure versus Agency in the Great Deprivation of 21st Century

Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Agency-based explanations of the great deprivation, contrasted with structure-based explanations, suffer not merely from the criticism of relying on irrational and irresponsible behavior of millions, including that of the most astute financial experts, but are also at a loss to explain why such...

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Does high involvement management improve worker wellbeing?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than “like” employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a...

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Objectivizing the Subjective: Measuring Subjective Wellbeing

Pillai N., Vijayamohanan; B. P., Asalatha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

objective indicators. Section 3 details the subjective approach to wellbeing in terms of life satisfaction, represented by … measures of global life-satisfaction, affect balance, average domain satisfaction and income. Section 4 presents a list of … variables which are correlated with global reports of life satisfaction and happiness, such as smiling frequency, sociability …

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Economic Inequality and Health: Looking Beyond Aggregate Indicators

Böckerman, Petri; Johansson, Edvard; Helakorpi, Satu; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between relative income inequality and health in Finland, using individual microdata over the period 1993-2005. Our data allows us to analyse a large spectrum of health indicators. Overall, our results suggest that income inequality is not associated with...

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Comparison of personal income inequality estimates based on data from the IRS and Census Bureau

Kitov, Ivan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper demonstrates quantitatively that modern estimates of income inequality based on the data reported by the IRS are not reliable. Principal problem of the IRS data consists in highly volatile income estimates in the low-end of personal income distribution. This volatility is likely...

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Colonial Origins of Inequality in Hispanic America? Some reflections based on new empirical evidence

Dobado González, Rafael; R; García Montero, Héctor; H - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper attempts at contributing to the ongoing debate on the historical roots of the high economic inequality of contemporary Iberian America. Basically empirical, our approach departs from mainstream scholarship. We show new data on wages and heights in several viceroyalties that: 1)...

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Cross-sectional Facts in Japan using Keio Household Panel Survey

Yamada, Tomoaki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We investigate economic inequalities of Japanese economy from 2004 to 2012 using the Keio household panel survey. We present cross-sectional dispersion earnings, consumption expenditure, and wealth inequalities from time-series and life cycle dimensions. Wage and hours inequalities, which are...

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