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Ambition and jealousy. Income Interactions in the "old" Europe versus The "New" Europe and the United States
Senik, Claudia - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2005
This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation depends on the degree of mobility and uncertainty in the economy. It mostly concentrates on the relation between satisfaction and reference income (defined as the income of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876150
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Culture and the cross-country differences in the gender commuting gap : evidence from immigrants in the United States
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2021
This paper explores the role of the gender equality culture in cross-country gender commuting gap differences. To avoid … inter-relationships between culture, institutions, and economic conditions in a simple cross-country analysis, we adopt the … evidence of the existence of a cultural impact. Our results show that a culture with more gender equality in the country of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497183
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Social networks and vaccination decisions
Rao, Neel (contributor); Mobius, Markus (contributor);  … - 2007
We combine information on social networks with medical records and survey data in order to examine how friends affect one's decision to get vaccinated against the flu. The random assignment of undergraduates to residential halls at a large private university allows us to estimate how peer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003715780
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COVID-19 and the 2020 US Presidential Election : Did the Pandemic Cost Donald Trump Reelection?
Noland, Marcus; Zhang, Yiwen Eva - 2021
By Election Day 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had killed 234,244 Americans and caused the sharpest macroeconomic downturn in US history. Regression analysis shows that in a “no pandemic” counterfactual or a counterfactual in which the severity of the pandemic was mitigated by 30 percent,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238675
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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview
Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518911
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Living arrangements in Western Europe : does cultural origin matter?
Giuliano, Paola (contributor) - 2006
conditions suggests a major role for culture in determining living arrangements. -- culture ; living arrangements ; immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301660
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Does culture affect divorce decisions? : evidence from European immigrants in the US
Furtado, Delia; Marcén, Miriam; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - 2011
This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in … evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home country variables including average …-ethnics. Supplemental analyses indicate that divorce culture has a stronger impact on the divorce decisions of females than of males …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408768
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The European Labour Markets - Differences in Labour Markets Across the Atlantic
Puhani, Patrick - In: CESifo Forum 05 (2004) 1, pp. 12-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695745
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The Financial Crisis in Japan – Are There Similarities to the Current Situation?
Mayr, Johannes - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 4, pp. 64-68
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695915
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Ambition and jealousy : income interactions in the "old" Europe versus the "new" Europe and the United States
Senik-Leygonie, Claudia (contributor) - 2006
This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation depends on the degree of mobility and uncertainty in the economy. It mostly concentrates on the relation between satisfaction and reference income (defined as the income of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310955