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Improving well-being in the United States
Caldera Sánchez, Aida; Lenain, Patrick; Fleche, Sarah - 2014
Life is quite good in the United States compared to other OECD countries, thanks to strong economic growth and technological progress having lifted average income to high levels. Nonetheless, there is evidence that the benefits from growth have not been sufficiently broad based. Self-reported...
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An exploration of the determinants of the subjective well-being of Americans during the Great Recession
Caldera Sánchez, Aida; Tassot, Caroline - 2014
This paper uses data from the American Life Panel to understand the determinants of well-being in the United States during the Great Recession. It investigates how various dimensions of subjective wellbeing reflected in the OECD Better Life Framework impact subjective well-being. The results...
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"Golden ages" : a tale of the labor markets in China and the United States
Fang, Hanming; Qiu, Xincheng - 2021
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The effect of sexual activity on wages
Drydakis, Nick - 2013
The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate … potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this …'s set of productive traits that affect wages. Using two stage estimations we examine the relationship between adult sexual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783674
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Scaling of Inequality : Urbanization Favors High Wage Earners
Shutters, Shade T.; Applegate, J. M.; Wentz, Elizabeth; … - 2021
As cities increase in size, total wages grow superlinearly, meaning that average wages are higher in larger cities … positively to human well-being. However, it remains unclear how the distribution of wages changes as cities grow. Here we segment … the populations of U.S. cities into wage deciles and determine the scaling coefficient of each bracket's aggregate wages …
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The Effect of Sexual Activity on Wages
Drydakis, Nick - 2013
The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate … potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this …'s set of productive traits that affect wages. Using two stage estimations we examine the relationship between adult sexual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077319
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Convergence over time or not? : U.S. wages by sexual orientation, 2001-2018
Jepsen, Christopher; Jepsen, Lisa K. - 2020
An extensive literature on labor-market outcomes by sexual orientation finds lower wages for gay men compared to … heterosexual men and higher wages for lesbians compared to heterosexual women. Recent work looking over multiple time periods …
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What skills pay more? : the changing demand and return to skills for professional workers
Josten, Cecily; Krause, Helen; Lordan, Grace; Yeung, Brian - 2024
Technology is disrupting labor markets. We analyze the demand and reward for skills at occupation and state level across two time periods using job postings. First, we use principal components analysis to derive nine skills groups: "collaborative leader", "interpersonal & organized", "big data",...
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Job satisfaction and coworker pay in Canadian firms
Javdani, Mohsen; Krauth, Brian - 2019
One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute income, but also their income relative to various reference groups (e.g. co-workers, friends, neighbors, relatives, etc.). We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to estimate...
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ICT skills and labor market outcomes in India : evidence from cell tower expansion
Azam, Mehtabul; Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2024
Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey, 2020), we provide evidence on the effects of ICT skills on labor market outcomes and household welfare as measured by per capita expenditure. We study the effects both at the...
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