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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9397 Wang-Sheng Lee
Zhong Zhao
Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China
In general, the happiness literature has paid little attention to the relationship between physical appearance and well-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2017, 132 (1), 117-136 )
I10, I30
9396 Younghwan Song
A Cross-State Comparison of Measures of Subjective Well-Being
Using data drawn from the 2010 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Module, this study examines the relationship between three measures of subjective well-being based on time-use data and an objective ...
(published in: International Journal of Wellbeing, 2017, 7 (1), 65-83)
I31, J22
9395 Laszlo Goerke
Markus Pannenberg
Direct Evidence for Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being across Reference Groups
This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 95-101)
D31, D62, I31
9394 Silvia Mendolia
Peter Siminski
New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in Australia
We present new estimates of intergenerational earnings elasticity for Australia. We closely follow the methodology used by Leigh (2007), but use considerably more data (twelve waves of HILDA and four ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2016, 92 (298), 361-373.)
J62, J24
9393 Mona Larsen
Peder J. Pedersen
Labor Force Activity after 60: Recent Trends in the Scandinavian Countries with Germany as a Benchmark
In most OECD member countries labor force attachment has increased in recent years in the 60+ group. Focus in the paper is on the development in this area in Denmark, Norway and Sweden since the ...
(updated version published as 'Labour force activity after 65: what explain recent trends in Denmark, Germany and Sweden?' in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 50, 5–27 )
I15, I25, J14, J26
9391 Alexander Hijzen
Ryo Kambayashi
Hiroshi Teruyama
Yuji Genda
The Japanese Labour Market during the Global Financial Crisis and the Role of Non-Standard Work: A Micro Perspective
This paper analyses aggregate labour dynamics during the global financial crisis in Japan and the role of nonstandard work using micro data. The analysis proceeds in two steps. First, using ...
(published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2015, 38, 260-281)
D22, E24, J23, J41
9390 Sarah Marchal
Ive Marx
Stemming the Tide: What Have EU Countries Done to Support Low-Wage Workers in an Era of Downward Wage Pressures?
Governments across the EU have been striving to get more people into work while at the same time acknowledging that more needs to be done to 'make work pay'. Yet this drive comes at a time when ...
(published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2018, 28 (1), 18 - 33)
I38
9388 Eberhard Feess
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Markus Schramm
Ansgar Wohlschlegel
The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence: Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory
We develop a theoretical model to identify and compare partial and equilibrium effects of uncertainty and the magnitude of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 149, 58-73)
K14, K42, C91, D64
9387 Constantinos Antoniou
Glenn Harrison
Morten Lau
Daniel Read
Information Characteristics and Errors in Expectations: Experimental Evidence
We design an experiment to test the hypothesis that, in violation of Bayes Rule, some people respond more forcefully to the strength of information than to its weight. We provide incentives to ...
(published in: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2017, 52 (2), 737-750 )
D81, D84, G11
9386 Carlo dal Maso
Enrico Rettore
Lorenzo Rocco
Procedures vs. Incentives: The Case of the University Promotion System in Italy
A common observation is that individuals strive to neutralize the effect of procedural rules designed to drive choices away from their private optimum. An example of this phenomenon is offered by the ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2018, 26 (3), 213 - 232)
D71, M51, I2
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