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Race and income distribution: Evidence from the US, Brazil and South Africa

Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

The aim of this paper is to provide some empirical evidence about black-white differentials in the distribution of income and wellbeing in three different countries: Brazil, US and South Africa. In all cases, people of African descent are in a variety of ways socially disadvantaged compared with...

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An Empirical Study of Tax Evasion Ethics in China

McGee, Robert W.; Yuhua, An - 2007

In 1944, Martin Crowe, a Catholic priest, wrote a doctoral dissertation titled The Moral Obligation of Paying Just Taxes. His dissertation summarized and analyzed 500 years of theological and philosophical debate on this topic, which identified three basic philosophical positions on the issue....

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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...

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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?ʺ A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914037

Mode and context effects in measuring household assets

Soest, Arthur van; Kapteyn, Arie - 2009

Differences in answers in Internet and traditional surveys can be due to selection, mode, or context effects. We exploit unique experimental data to analyze mode and context effects controlling for arbitrary selection. The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) surveys a random sample of the US 50+...

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Dynamics of work disability and pain

Kapteyn, Arie (contributor); Smith, James P. (contributor) - 2006

This paper investigates the role of pain in affecting self-reported work disability and employment of elderly workers in the US. We investigate pain and its relationship to work disability and work in a dynamic panel data model, using six biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. We...

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Work Disability is a Pain in the *****, Especially in England, the Netherlands, and the United States

Banks, James W.; Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van … - 2008

This paper investigates the role of pain in determining self-reported work disability in the U.S., the U.K. and The Netherlands. Even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences in reported work disability remain substantial. In the U.S. and the Netherlands, respondent...

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Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States

Gradín, Carlos - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 17, pp. 1905-1920

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Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States

Gradín, Carlos - 2017

We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … US has been accompanied by a deeper, longer reduction in gender stratification. We further investigate the role of … workers' characteristics, showing that gender differences cannot explain the levels of segregation/stratification in any year …

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Life satisfaction

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009

We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global life satisfaction of happiness is well-described by four domains: job or daily activities, social...

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