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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1351 Conchita D'Ambrosio
Joachim R. Frick
Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation: An Empirical Link
This paper explores the relationship between two well-established concepts of measuring individual well-being: the concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2007, 81(3), 497-519)
D63, I31, D31
1350 Richard Blundell
Amanda Gosling
Hidehiko Ichimura
Costas Meghir
Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds
This paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of non-random selection into work. We show that bounds constructed without any economic or statistical ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2007, 75(2), 323–363)
J31, C24
1349 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition
We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union. Employment growth ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (2), 229-251 )
E24, J63, O47, P23
1348 Till von Wachter
Stefan Bender
In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers' Careers
We exploit administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the long-term effects of an early job loss. To account for non-random sorting of workers into firms with ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1679-1705)
J63, J65
1346 Robert E. Leu
Martin Schellhorn
The Evolution of Income-Related Health Inequalities in Switzerland over Time
This paper presents new evidence on income-related health inequality and its development over time in Switzerland. We employ the methods lined out in van Doorslaer and Jones (2003) and van ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2006, 52 (4), 666-690)
D32, I10, I12
1344 Arno Riedl
Frans van Winden
Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (2), 216-232)
A10, C90, C91, D21, D80, E62, H20
1343 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Dana Lup
What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005, 54 (1), 33-70)
M13, O16, O19, P26
1341 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Stephen V. Burks
Eric Verhoogen
Comparing Students to Workers: The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games
To investigate the external validity of Ultimatum and Dictator game behavior we conduct experiments in field settings with naturally occurring variation in "social framing." Our participants are ...
(published in: J. Carpenter, G. Harrison, and J. List (eds.), Field Experiments in Economics (Research in Experimental Economics, 10), 2005, 261 - 289)
C93, J24, Z13
1340 Christine Harbring
Bernd Irlenbusch
Incentives in Tournaments with Endogenous Prize Selection
Tournament incentive schemes offer payments dependent on relative performance and thereby are intended to motivate agents to exert productive effort. Unfortunately, however, an agent may also be ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2005, 161 (4), 636-663)
D23, J33, J41, L23, C72
1339 Andrew E. Clark
Fabrice Etilé
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Claudia Senik
Karine Van der Straeten
Heterogeneity in Reported Well-Being: Evidence from Twelve European Countries
This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent class techniques applied to panel data from twelve European countries. Introducing both intercept and slope ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (502), C118-C132)
C14, C23, I30
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