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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being : conference paper
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - This version: February 18, 2013
Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...
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Information technologies and subjective well-being : does the internet raise material aspirations? ; conference paper
Lohmann, Steffen - 2013
Existing work on the economics of well-being suggests that a person's subjective well-being depends to a large degree on his relative standing within his social environment. In this paper, we examine whether access to modern information and telecommunication technologies has an impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344634
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Parental benefits and mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium run : conference paper
Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2014 - This version: 1 August 2014
Increasing mothers labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smooth- ing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...
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Arbeitsmarktforschung in europäischer Perspektive : ausgewählte Studien der Europäischen Stiftung zur Verbesserung der Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen (Eurofound) der Jahre 2015 bis...
Putz, Sabine (ed.); Sturm, René (ed.) - 2020
Aus dem Vorwort: Die im Mai 1975 vom Europäischen Rat ins Leben gerufene Europäische Stiftung zur Verbesserung der Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen (Eurofound) ist eine Agentur der Europäischen Union, die das Thema der Verbesserung der Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen in Europa als zentrales...
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The cost-of-living crisis and energy poverty in the EU : social impact and policy responses : background paper
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and … - 2022
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La mesure du développement : des indicateurs en question
Lautier, Marc (ed.); Vernières, Michel (ed.) - Colloque "La mesure du développement: comment science … - 2018
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Decomposing Inequality in CO 2 emissions : the role of primary energy carriers and economic sectors ; conference paper
Grunewald, Nicole; Jakob, Michael; Mouratiadou, Ioanna - 2013
Emission inequality across countries and the contribution of the energy mix and the sectoral composition of a country s … energy use are of central importance to the climate debate. We analyze the evolution of inequality in global CO2 per capita … decreasing emission inequality within all fossil primary energy sources. From the perspective of economic sectors, the decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342240
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Inequality undermines democracy and growth
Thorvaldur Gylfason - Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar <30., … - 2019 - Final version 21 January 2019
and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule …
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Declining tax progression and the German dual income tax : conference paper
Jenderny, Katharina - 2013 - Preliminary version
This paper analyzes the effect of the introduction of a final withholding tax on capital income on the progression of the German income tax. As previous literature shows, even with synthetic income taxation, tax progression was strongest in the middle of the income distribution, and decreased...
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