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Lost in transition: life satisfaction on the road to capitalism
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2008
In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268572
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Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism
Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822809
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Institutions in the Economic Fitness Landscape: What Impact Do Welfare State Institutions Have on Economic Performance?
Schettkat, Ronald - 2003
This paper uses data from 20 OECD countries to investigate the impact of welfare state institutions (especially employment protection, wage bargaining and work incentives) on the functioning of the labour market both theoretically and empirically. It shows that the impact of welfare state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262103
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Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal expenditures: regression discontinuity evidence from Brazilian municipalities
Chamon, Marcos; de Mello, João M. P.; Firpo, Sergio - 2009
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters mayors are elected with a plurality of the vote. In municipalities with more than 200,000 voters a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275835
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Joblessness and perceptions about the effectiveness of democracy
Altindag, Duha; Mocan, H. Naci - 2010
Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275889
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The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Government- and Market-Attitudes
Goff, Sandra; Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa; Reents, Alex; … - 2020
We study the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on college students' government- and market-attitudes using within … think they can cause harm. Support significantly increases for bigger government though this does not translate to increased … income), nor to increased support for the government to play a role in the various specific capacities listed in the survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322421
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Do Nominations Close the Gender Gap in Competition?
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa - 2020
Experiments have demonstrated that men are more willing to compete than women in stereotypically male tasks. We examine whether nominations close this gender gap. For example, are male nominators more willing than female nominators to enter nominees into competitions. Further, we consider the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322651
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Capitalism Recoupled
Kelly, Colm; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
stakeholder value. For government, it calls for setting legal obligations, targets and incentives to ensure that stakeholder value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658088
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The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from a Migration Lottery and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments
Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; Rohorua, Halahingano; … - 2016
We study how migration from a poor to a rich country affects key economic beliefs, preference parameters, and transnational household decision-making efficiency. Our setting is the migration of Tongans to New Zealand through a migration lottery program. In a ten-year follow-up survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525041
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Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Chamon, Marcos; Mello, João M. P. de; Firpo, Sergio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters mayors are elected with a plurality of the vote. In municipalities with more than 200,000 voters a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497585