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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9401 Gus O'Donnell
Andrew J. Oswald
National Well-being Policy and a Weighted Approach to Human Feelings
Governments are becoming interested in the concept of human well-being and how truly to assess it. As an alternative to traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2015,120, 59 - 70)
I31, I38, Z18
9399 Karen Clay
Joshua Lewis
Edson Severnini
Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects susceptibility to infectious disease. The empirical analysis combines the sharp timing of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78 (4), 1179-1209)
N32, N52, I15, I18, Q53, Q56, Q58
9398 Timothy J. Halliday
John Lynham
Aureo de Paula
Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates
The high correlation of industrial pollutant emissions complicates the estimation of the impact of industrial pollutants on health. To circumvent this, we use emissions from K?lauea volcano, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (620),1782–1816,)
H51, I12, Q51, Q53
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
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