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Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare … allowance yields positive static welfare effects amounting to approximately 1.8 per cent of income tax revenue but increases … problematic distributional impact, flat tax reforms are unlikely to spill over to the welfare states of Western Europe. …

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Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...

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China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010

Easterlin, Richard A.; Morgan, Robson; Switek, Malgorzata; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries – a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend. There is no evidence of an increase in life...

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Human Well-being and In-Work Benefits: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Dorsett, Richard; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Many politicians believe they can intervene in the economy to improve people's lives. But can they? In a social experiment carried out in the United Kingdom, extensive in-work support was randomly assigned among 16,000 disadvantaged people. We follow a sub-sample of 3,500 single parents for 5...

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Economic Approaches to Understanding Change in Happiness

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

predicting it. Third, adaptation might have great consequences for public policy and the idea of social welfare maximization …

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Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis

Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna; Van der Linden, Bruno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an … current and future selves of sophisticated hyperbolic discounters. The same holds for naive agents if the welfare criterion … raises the welfare of the unemployed. …

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Parents Transmit Happiness along with Associated Values and Behaviors to Their Children: A Lifelong Happiness Dividend?

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of...

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Positional Concerns among the Poor: Does Reference Group Matter? Evidence from Survey Experiments

Akay, Alpaslan; Andersson, Lisa; Martinsson, Peter; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Previous research suggests a lower degree of positional concerns among people from poor countries. Yet the evidence is limited and most often builds on the assumption that people’s reference groups are the same across all individuals. We conduct a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia that is...

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Explaining Well-Being over the Life Cycle: A Look at Life Transitions during Young Adulthood

Switek, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Early adulthood is a time of important transitions that shape the future of young adults. How do these transitions affect well-being, and to what degree can they account for the life satisfaction path followed during young adulthood? To answer these questions, longitudinal data from the Swedish...

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UK Households' Carbon Footprint: A Comparison of the Association between Household Characteristics and Emissions from Home Energy, Transport and Other Goods and Services

Buchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions in the UK? Specific types of households might be more likely to have high emissions in some areas than in others and thus be...

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