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When experienced and decision utility concur : the case of income comparisons Andrew E. Clark; Claudia Senik ; Katsunori Yamada

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Yamada, Katsunori - 2015

While there is now something of a consensus in the literature on the economics of happiness that income comparisons to … others help determine subjective wellbeing, debate continues over the relative importance of own and reference-group income … regarding happiness analysis, and in particular with respect to the measurement of reference-group income. We here use data from …

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The effect of income on mortality : new evidence for the absence of a causal link

Ahammer, Alexander; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015

We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential … estimations, IV regressions reveal a robust zero-effect of income on ten-year death rates for prime-age workers, both in terms of …

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Cross-sectional earnings risk and occupational sorting : the role of risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2006

This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different earnings variability. We exploit data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which contains a subjective assessment of willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been...

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The linguistic and economic adjustment of Soviet Jewish immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); Wenz, Michael (contributor) - 2005

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of adult male Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent...

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Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

for Germans who are in the upper end of the income distribution. “Rich” self-employed Germans enjoy a wage premium …

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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States

Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014

Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...

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Above and Beyond the Call : Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription in the Post-War Years

Grenet, Julien - 2011

We add to the literature on the long-term economic effects of male military service. We concentrate on post-war British conscription into the armed services from 1949 to 1960. It was called National Service and applied to males aged 18 to 26. Based on a regression discontinuity design we...

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Estimating the Return to College Selectivity Over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data

Dale, Stacy Berg - 2011

We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between...

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Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2011

applicable for immigrants from countries that are very similar in terms of the transferability of skills, culture, and labor …

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Is Earnings Nonresponse Ignorable?

Bollinger, Christopher R. - 2010

Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on attributes not matched in the earnings imputation hot deck. If nonresponse...

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