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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2009
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329928
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Improving educational pathways to social mobility: Evidence from Norway's "Reform 94"
Bertrand, Marianne; Mogstad, Magne; Mountjoy, Jack - 2019
High school vocational education has a controversial history in the United States, largely due to a perceived tradeoff between teaching readily deployable occupational skills versus shunting mostly disadvantaged students away from the educational and career flexibility afforded by general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145561
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The effects of delayed tracking: Evidence from German states
Lange, Simon; von Werder, Marten - 2014
Germany's education system stands out among OECD countries for early tracking: students are tracked into different secondary school types at the age of ten in most German states. In this paper we estimate the effects on educational outcomes of a reform that delayed tracking by two years. While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481483
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Adaptation under Traditional Gender Roles: Testing the Baseline Hypothesis in South Korea
Rudolf, Robert; Kang, Sung-Jin - 2011
Using detailed longitudinal data from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS) from 1998 to 2008, this paper analyzes gender-specific impacts as well as anticipation and adaptation to major life and labor market events. We focus on six major events: marriage, divorce, widowhood,...
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The Gender-Specific Effect of Working Hours on Family Happiness in South Korea
Rudolf, Robert; Cho, Seo-Young - 2011
characterized by high levels of gender inequality which is partly due to long working hours, a significant gender gap in earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329987
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UNDP's gender-related measures: Current problems and proposals for fixing them
Klasen, Stephan - 2017
-related indicators, discuss the Gender Inequality Index (GII), its most recent incarnation, in some more detail, briefly review other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636815
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When subsidized R&D-firms fail, do they still stimulate growth? Tracing knowledge by following employees across firms
Møen, Jarle - 2004
Public R&D subsidies aim to target particularly risky R&D and R&D with large externalities. One would expect many such projects to fail from a commercial point of view, but they may still produce knowledge with social value. Such knowledge is likely to be embodied in workers or teams of workers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968169
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Why children of college graduates outperform their schoolmates. A study of cousins and adoptees
Hægeland, Torbjørn; Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen; … - 2010
There is massive cross-sectional evidence that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates on tests, grade repetition and in educational attainment. However, evidence for causal interpretation of this association is weak. Within a rich census level data set for Norway, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968398
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Matching Household Surveys with DHS Data to Create Nationally Representative Time Series of Poverty: An Application to Bolivia
Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009
Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329887
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Pro-Poor Progress in Education in Developing Countries?
Hartgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - 2009
rising average attendance, while inequality in completion rates or schooling years increases with rising completion rates or … initial inequality in education. At the regional level, educational progress was generally more pro-poor in Asia and Latin … America, while in Africa the experience is very heterogeneous. While gender inequality has decreased slightly, large …
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