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FDI and Inequality in Vietnam : An Approach with Census Data
McLaren, John - 2016
We investigate the effects of inward FDI on income distribution and absolute living standards in Vietnam using census … data from 1989-2009. We compute the number of employees of foreign establishments in each of Vietnam's provinces for each … of FDI on household welfare is more difficult than measuring the effect of trade policy, and may pose a difficulty for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977614
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Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being : Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
The quot;Easterlin paradoxquot; suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758453
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Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2010
In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data. In earlier work (Meyer and Sullivan, 2003) we emphasized that conceptual arguments generally favor using consumption data to measure the well-being of the poor, and, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759811
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The Well-Being of the Overemployed and the Underemployed and the Rise in Depression in the UK
Bell, David N.F. - 2018
In this paper we build on our earlier work on underemployment using data from the UK. In particular, we explore their well-being based on hours preferences rather than on involuntary part-time work used in the prior literature. We make use of five main measures of well-being: happiness; life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914269
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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit
Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce; Sullivan, James X. - 2022
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income question on the Monthly Current Population Survey (CPS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078194
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COVID-19 Infection Externalities : Trading Off Lives vs. Livelihoods
Bethune, Zachary - 2020
We analyze the externalities that arise when social and economic interactions transmit infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Individually rational agents do not internalize that they impose infection externalities upon others when the disease is transmitted. In an SIR model calibrated to capture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836418
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The Scots May Be Brave But They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy
Bell, David N.F; Blanchflower, David G. - 2021
On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The self-assessed wellbeing of Scots is lower than that of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219200
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Changes in Household Living Arrangements 1950-76
Michael, Robert T.; Fuchs, Victor R.; Scott, Sharon R. - 2021
The growth in single-person households is a pervasive behavioral phenomenon in the United States in the post-war period. In this paper we investigate determinants of the propensity to live alone, using 1970 data across states for single men and women ages 25 to 34 and for elderly widows. Income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212380
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Income Tax Design and the Desirability of Subsidies to Secondary Workers in a Household Model with Joint and Non-Joint Time
Cudmore, Edgar - 2008
In this paper we analyze income tax design in a two member household labor supply model where time spent on consumption … together by the two household members is valued differently from time spent apart. We treat consumption as a non excludable … public good to members of the household; one example would be where all household members or one alone can watch TV. When …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773314
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Self-Protection Investment Exacerbates Air Pollution Exposure Inequality in Urban China
Zheng, Siqi - 2015
Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China's wealthy have the purchasing power to purchase private products such as portable room air filters that allows them to offset some of the pollution exposure risk. Using a unique data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020700