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Social Safety Nets, Economic Freedom and Public Policy
Kaur, Simrit - 2009
What is the relationship between social welfare, safety nets and economic freedom? Arguably, if economic freedom (EF) promotes growth and if it trickles down EF promotes larger freedoms (e.g. a healthy and productive life, free from want and deprivation). However, higher EF by definition entails...
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Short-term Training Programs for Immigrants: Do Effects Differ from Natives and Why?
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Aldashev, Alisher; Walter, Thomas - 2010
We evaluate the effects of different short-term training programs on the employment chances of immigrant and native … propensity score matching estimators. To explain potential differences in effects between the groups, we suggest and apply a … decomposition method based on the matching procedure that allows identification of differences due to observable characteristics and …
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010
This paper examines the labour market matching process by distinguishing its two component stages: the contact stage … account for important empirical regularities that the conventional matching model cannot. …
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The Biological Standard of Living in Zurich during WWI
Floris, Joël; Müller, Consuela; Woitek, Ulrich - 2015
The paper analyzes the class specific biological standard of living in the city of Zurich during World War I. We find an increase of aver- age human stature for lower class conscripts born during this period, while the average height of conscripts from the upper and middle class stagnated or...
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The Ranking Measure of Life Satisfaction: A Constructive Critique
Köke, Sonja; Perino, Grischa - 2015
Life satisfaction (LS) is used as a welfare-measure in many different ways to inform about what makes people better off and even to quantify tradeoffs between different things like putting a monetary value on environmental goods. All these welfare analyzes rely on the ability of the measurement...
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Insurance Market with Self-Protection Activities and Risk Interdependencies: Profits, Market Structure, and Risk Exposure
Hofmann, Annette - 2010
Common economic models of insurance theory assume that insurers play no role in modifying the loss potential. Individual loss prevention decisions tend to reduce risk and even often affect risk faced by others. Incorporating these important features into an insurance market, we argue that...
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Predicting GDP of 289 NUTS Regions in Europe with 'Subjective' Indicators for Human and Social Capital
Weckroth, Mikko; Kemppainen, Teemu; Sørensen, Jens F.L. - 2015
, intramural R&D expenditure, share of tertiary educated population and employment). The results of this study are hoped to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400310
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Measuring Pro-Poor Growth with Non-Income Indicators
Klasen, Stephan; Harttgen, Kenneth; Grosse, Melanie - 2005
One existing shortcoming of current pro-poor growth concepts and measurements is that they are completely focused on income. But growth that is declared to be pro-poor where the measure is based only on income must not automatically imply improvement in the nonincome (or social) dimension of...
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Low Malnutrition but High Mortality: Explaining the Paradox of the Lake Victoria Region
Priebe, Jan; Gräb, Johannes - 2009
Exploiting DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301476
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Subjective Well Being and the Impact of Climate Change
Grün, Carola; Grunewald, Nicole - 2010
We analyze the relationship between subjective well-being as a non-income welfare measure and climate variables such as temperature, precipitation rates or cloud covered days. Therewith, we estimate the effects from events related to climate change on subjective well-being and point out possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301548