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Frame-of-reference bias in subjective welfare regressions
Beegle, Kathleen - 2009
"Past research has found that subjective questions about an individuals' economic status do not correspond closely to measures of economic welfare based on household income or consumption. Survey respondents undoubtedly hold diverse ideas about what it means to be "poor" or "rich." Further, this...
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Wage subsidy and labor market flexibility in South Africa
Go, Delfin S. (contributor) - 2009
"In this paper, the authors use a highly disaggregate general equilibrium model to analyze the feasibility of a wage subsidy to unskilled workers in South Africa, isolating and estimating its potential employment effects and fiscal cost. They capture the structural characteristics of the labor...
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Do Wage Subsidies Help Young Women Get Jobs?
World Bank - 2014
Unemployment among young adults is a problem throughout the world, and it's of particular concern in the Middle East, where half the population is under the age of 25 and more than a quarter of those aged 15-24 are out of work. Young women fare worse than men when it comes to finding jobs....
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A curse of comparison? : Evidence on reference groups for relative income concerns
Kuegler, Alice - 2009
-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a … positively linked to individual life satisfaction. This evidence supplements the scarce economic research on reference groups …
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May growth lead to higher deprivation despite higher satisfaction?
Wodon, Quentin - 2009
"In a relative deprivation framework, unless inequality is reduced, growth is associated with both higher satisfaction … this can also be used to assess the satisfaction and deprivation of each individual. Given the normalization used to derive … the satisfaction and deprivation measures, satisfaction and deprivation add up to the mean income for the population as a …
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Poverty & human development
Isenman, Paul J. (contributor) - 1982
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The quality of life in Latin American cities : markets and perception
Lora, Eduardo (contributor) - 2010
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What are public services worth, and to whom? : non-parametric estimation of capitalization in Pune
Lall, Somik V. - 2006
"The availability and quality of basic public services are important determinants of urban quality of life. In many cities, rapid population growth and fiscal constraints are limiting the extent to which urban governments can keep up with increasing demand for these services. It therefore...
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On measuring aggregate "social efficiency"
Ravallion, Martin - 2003
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