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Concerns about the Euro and happiness in Germany during times of crisis

Chadi, Adrian - 2015

This empirical study investigates if people's concerns about the euro currency affect their life satisfaction. A minority of very concerned individuals appear to be unhappy, which cannot be explained by personality or other observable factors typically affecting well-being. As a novelty, this...

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Petty Corruption and Citizen Reports

Angelucci, Charles - 2017

comply with regulations before undertaking an activity. Officials verify their compliance and may engage in corruption. In … line with existing work, the government tolerates corruption and weak enforcement when it does not communicate with … corruption and improves regulatory enforcement. In an extension, we incorporate intermediaries and show their presence makes the …

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Petty Corruption and Citizen Reports

Angelucci, Charles - 2016

corruption in administrations. In our model, entrepreneurs must comply with regulation before undertaking a risky activity …

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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel - 2008

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population interms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individualeconomic security, in particular job security, in workers’ well-being by exploiting sectorspecificinstitutional differences in...

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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and Private Sectors

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular, job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...

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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed?: Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and Private Sectors

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular, job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...

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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers’ well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...

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Two sides of the same coin or two different coins? : exploring the duality of corruption in Latin America

Hugo, Ella; Savage, David; Schneider, Friedrich; … - 2021

The ambiguous phenomenon of corruption has long been the cause of great theoretical debate in economics. By using … Structural Equation Modelling, with the two types of corruption as a latent variable, this paper employs causal and indicative … variables specific to the Latin American region to test for rent seeking and systemic corruption in the period between 1980 …

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Governance statistics in OECD countries and beyond : what exists, and what would be required to assess their quality?

González, Santiago; Fleischer, Lara; Mira D'Ercole, Marco - 2017

The paper provides a first assessment of the range of governance statistics that are available in OECD countries, reaching three main conclusions. First, while several statistics relating to various aspects of governance are already available, they differ in terms of the underlying concepts, the...

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Setting a Good Example? The Effect of Leader and Peer Behavior on Corruption Among Indonesian Senior Civil Servants

Sondang Silitonga, Mala - 2020

Standard anticorruption interventions consist of intensified monitoring and sanctioning. Rooted in principal-agent theory, these interventions are based on the assumption that corrupt acts follow a rational cost-benefit calculation by gain-seeking individuals. Given their mixed results, however,...

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