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Migration and Mental Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Stillman, Steven; McKenzie, David; Gibson, John - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2006
reduction in persecution. Yet a large literature suggests that migration can be a very stressful process, with potentially … negative impacts on mental health reducing the net benefits of migration. However, to truly understand the effect of migration … between these groups. This paper overcomes the selection problems affecting previous studies of the effect of migration on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634928
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How Important is Selection? Experimental vs Non-experimental Measures of Income Gains from Migration
McKenzie, David; Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2006
Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … conducted by the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration to be obtained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634957
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Personal Financial Literacy Among High School Students in New Zealand, Japan and the United States
Cameron, Michael P.; Calderwood, Richard; Cox, Ashleigh; … - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2013
Personal financial literacy is becoming increasingly important in the modern world, especially for young people. In this paper we compare financial literacy of high school students in Hamilton, New Zealand, with samples from Japan and the United States. We compare not only overall financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010632802
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Factors Associated with Financial Literacy among High School Students
Cameron, Michael P.; Calderwood, Richard; Cox, Ashleigh; … - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2013
Understanding the financial literacy of young people is an essential prerequisite for developing effective education programmes designed to improve young people’s understanding of personal finance. In this paper, we present results from a survey of high school students which included a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897137
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The intergenerational causal effect of tax evasion: Evidence from the commuter tax allowance in Austria
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Paetzold, Jörg - 2018
Does tax evasion run in the family? To answer this question, we study the case of the commuter tax allowance in Austria. This allowance is designed as a step function of the distance between the residence and the workplace, creating sharp discontinuities at each bracket threshold. It turns out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012042470
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The Rise of Neolithic Agriculture
Olsson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2001
transition; (i) environmental conditions, (ii) population pressure,(iii) cultural influence, and (iv) external factors. It is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651643
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Occupational gender composition and wages in Romania: from planned equality to market inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007
years of transition from a planned to a market economy. The results suggest that the communist institutions did succeed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651782
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CPI Bias and Real Living Standards in Russia During the Transition
Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven; Le, Trinh - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2004
The economies of the former Soviet Bloc experienced large declines in output during the decade of transition which … deflators provide a poor proxy for the change in real living standards in transition economies. This paper uses the Engel curve … the transition period and to provide an estimate of how much the officialRussian CPI has overstated consumer inflation. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634953
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When Samuelson met Veblen abroad: National and global public good provision when social comparisons matter
Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012
This paper derives Pareto efficient policy rules for the provision of national as well as global public goods in a two-country world, where each individual cares about relative consumption within as well as between countries. Furthermore, we compare these policy rules with those that follow from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019110
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Reciprocity Networks and the Participation Problem
Dufwenberg, Martin; Patel, Amrish - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014
Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The interaction of reciprocity with cost-sharing is critical....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019133