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By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...
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income, time-stable individual traits, employment biographies and local labor market effects.Given a broad set of further …
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By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...
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philanthropy and the use of wealth hold true in other national settings when compared to previous literature on "major donors …." Some results may be more specific to French society, whose relation to money and wealth and to private initiatives for the …
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Different family types may have a fixed flow of consumption costs, related to subsistence needs. We use a survey method … direct questions about the linkup between aggregate disposable family income and well-being for different family types … of consumption are embedded in welfare evaluations of respondents. More precisely, we find that the formalized …
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Different family types may have a fixed flow of consumption costs, related to subsistence needs. We use a survey method … direct questions about the linkup between aggregate disposable family income and well-being for different family types … of consumption are embedded in welfare evaluations of respondents. More precisely, we find that the formalized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003315161
Different family types may have a fixed flow of consumption costs related to subsistence needs. We use a survey … making direct questions about the linkup between aggregate disposable family income and well-being for different family types … evidence that fixed costs of consumption are embedded in welfare evaluations of respondents. More precisely, we find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050278
Recent studies in high-income industrialized countries have shown that equivalence scales are income-dependent. We …
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We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
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We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of … entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship … function of individual wealth while the introduction of start-up costs tends to flatten this relationship. The theoretical …
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