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Experienced versus Decision Utility of Income: Relative or Absolute Happiness
Vendrik, Maarten; Hirata, Johannes - 2003
This paper investigates relative or absolute happiness.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005844686
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Einkommen und Ausgaben älterer Menschen in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Reichert, Jürgen; Born, Andreas; Frerichs, Frerich; … - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005856762
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Anatomy of a Health Scare : Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK
Anderberg, Dan; Chevalier, Arnaud; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859496
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A Gender Perspective on Self-Employment Entry and Performance as Self-Employed
Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Wadensjö, Eskil - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Research on self-employment has increased during recent years and particular attention has been paid to self-employment dynamics and the factors influencing entry and exit rates from self-employment. Using a large panel data set for Sweden, this paper investigates variations in recruitment to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859526
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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview
Chiswick, Barry R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859575
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Bairoch Revisited. Tariff Structure and Growth in the Late 19th Century
Tena-Junguito, Antonio - Universidad Carlos III <Madrid> / Departamento de Economía; … - 2009
results show that income, factor endowment, and policy independence are important to explain regional asymmetries between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870482
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Regional Income Dispersion and Market Potential in the Late Nineteenth Century Hapsburg Empire
Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
for its 22 major regions. The paper argues that regional income differentials were significantly larger, that intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870545
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The Triumph and Denouement of the British Fiscal State: Taxation For the Wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815
O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
revenues. However, specific tax rates (which at that time were the norm) implied that the state’s real income would fall in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870561
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Trade, Convergence and Globalisation: the dynamics of change in the international income distribution, 1950-1998
Epstein, Philip; Howlett, Peter; Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
reach the levels of income enjoyed by the richest nations.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870584
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Income distribution and convergence: the European experience, 1870-1992
Epstein, Philip; Howlett, Peter; Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
decade. Galor identified three forms of long run percapita income convergence: absolute convergence, whereby convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870759