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novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …
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based on the NIS Approach and the New Growth Theory. Empirical study is further made with the Panel Data Analysis (PDA) and …
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In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the … income effects. In GSOEP they cancel to give no effect of effect of comparison income on life satisfaction in the whole … sample, when controlling for fixed effects, and time-in-panel, and with flexible, age-group dummies. The residual age …
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correction models formalizing adjustment dynamics of domestic investment ratios are markedly outperformed by static panel models …
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An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies after controlling for...
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Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...
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This paper examines the question of whether less-developed countries' (LDCs') experiences with foreign direct investment (FDI) systematically different from those of developed countries (DCs). We do this by examining three types of empirical FDI studies that typically do not distinguish between...
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We use cross-country panel data to examine the effects of a variety of nonpharmaceutical interventions used by …
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