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We analyze how adding the shadow economy to official output figures affects technical efficiency. We find that this only slightly affects the ranking of efficiency scores, but increases average efficiency. Our results are robust to the functional form of the production technology and the...
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persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …
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I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, com- paring three subsequent policy periods in … reduction in income was removed in the third policy period. These two reforms allow a causal identification of the effect of in …
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understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income … the traditional and emerging perspectives on the health-income relationship, this literature review presents a non …
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We reexamine the claim that the effect of income on subjective well-being suffers from a systematic downward bias if … one ignores that higher income is typically associated with more work effort. We analyze this claim using German panel … do not find evidence that leaving working hours out of the analysis leads to an underestimation of the income effect. …
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understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income … the traditional and emerging perspectives on the health-income relationship, this literature review presents a non …
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This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...
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This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the impact of trade on income. First, we use heterogeneous … trade on income for 81 developed and developing countries, both for the sample as a whole and for each individual country … income. Our main finding s are: (i) A one percent increase in the trade share of GDP yields, on average, a statistically …
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the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and reductions in … exception of cognitive disabilities for men and, in some specifications, work disability for men and family income, estimates …
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Sub-Saharan Africa has been characterised by low-income levels for decades. This paper analyses the impact of economic … globalisation and democracy on income in sub-Saharan Africa using panel cointegration techniques. The paper considers a composite … globalisation on income has been beneficial, the total long run impact of democracy has been the bane of income in sub …
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