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Life satisfaction and relative income: perceptions and evidence

Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009

Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...

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An Optimal Allocation of Asylum Seekers

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2024

We formulate a rule for allocating asylum seekers that is based on the social preferences of the native workers of the receiving countries. To derive the rule, we construct for each country a social welfare function, SWF, where the social welfare of a population is determined both by the...

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Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities

Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and analyzes its causes and consequences. It shows that, as in the international context, the relationship between income and life expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent...

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Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis

Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

After having been ignored for a long time by economists, happiness is becoming an object of serious research in 21st century economics. In Section 2 we sketch the present status of happiness economics. In Section 3 we consider the practical applicability of happiness economics, retaining the...

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On a Transformation of the Gini Coefficient into a Well-Behaved Social Welfare Function

Stark, Oded - 2025

Following Sen's (1973) characterization of the Gini coefficient as a ratio between a measure of aggregate income-based stress ("depression" in Sen's terminology) and aggregate income, we transform the Gini coefficient into a social welfare function rather than having the Gini coefficient feature...

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Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants

Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment,...

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Globalization, brain drain and development

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011

high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We …

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Drivers and impacts in the globalization of corporate R&D: An introduction based on the European experience

Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2011

The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: Globalization and Corporate R&D forthcoming in …

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The equality multiplier: How wage setting and welfare spending make similar countries diverge

Barth, Erling; Moene, Karl Ove - 2012

The complementarity between wage setting and welfare spending can explain how almost equally rich countries differ in economic and social equality among their citizens. More wage equality increases the welfare generosity via political competition in elections. A more generous welfare state fuels...

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Migration's income and poverty impact has been underestimated

Schiff, Maurice - 2006

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely the fact that migration changes the size of the...

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