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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects

De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012

The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …

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Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition

Kuku, Yemisi; Orazem, Peter F.; Singh, Rajesh Kumar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

skills who do not usecomputers. Controlling for likely simultaneity between computer use at work and labor marketearnings …

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WAGES AND THE CITY.THE ITALIAN CASE

Di Addario, Sabrina; Patacchini, Eleonora - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2005

'sSurvey of Household Income and Wealth for the years 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2002 on more than 22,000 employeesdistributed in 242 …

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Relative Wage Positions and Quit Behavior:New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Pfeifer, Christian; Schneck, Stefan - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2010

We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relativewage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of jobsatisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positionswithin their firms are on average more...

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The World Technology Frontier

Caselli, Francesco; Coleman, Wilbur John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

substitutes. We find that there is a skill biasin cross-country technology differences. Higher-income countries use skilled … labormore efficiently than lower-income countries, while they use unskilled labor relativelyand, possibly, absolutely less …

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Earnings Determination and Taxes: Evidence froma Cohort Based Payroll Tax Reform in Greece

Saez, Emmanuel; Matsaganis, Manos; Tsakloglou, Panos - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

This paper analyzes the response of earnings to payroll tax rates using a cohort-basedreform in Greece. All individuals who started working on or after 1993 face permanently amuch higher earnings cap for payroll taxes, creating a large and permanent discontinuity inmarginal payroll tax rates by...

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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

‘income’). This is the caseeven when estimating individual fixed effects of the differential returns to education for spellsin … instrumentalvariables to cope with the endogenous nature of education in income equations. Finally, wefind (indirect) support for the …

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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview

Chiswick, Barry R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and …

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Long Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain , 19932000

Cervini, María; Ramos, Xavi - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper provides a longitudinal perspective on changes in Spanish male earnings inequality for the period 1993-2000, by decomposing the earnings covariance structure into its permanent and transitory parts. According to the Spanish sample of the European Community Household Panel,...

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Is Education the Panacea for EconomicDeprivation of Muslims? Evidence fromWage Earners in India, 1987-2005

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials amongreligious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multireligioussocieties like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examiningthe differences in the...

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