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-2004 shows that income has only a minor effect on positive subjective well-being but a large effect on negative well-being. …
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This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was prematurely discontinued in July 1968 due to a sharp...
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employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs …
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We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or non-working for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs for workers only....
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This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers. The … analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk … parameters in various manufacturing sectors. The estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are then used to …
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welfare on individual well-being constitutes a significant issue. This paper studies the disposable income and poverty among … disposable income and other financial and labor market outcomes and thereby give a well-founded analysis of the financial well …
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. Our first main result is that the more the heir inherits, the lower her labor income becomes. This labor supply effect … transfer. Our second main result is that the more the heir inherits, the higher her capital income becomes. This savings effect …
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When a survey response mechanism depends on the variable of interest measured within the same survey and observed for only part of the sample, the situation is one of nonignorable nonresponse. Ignoring the nonresponse is likely to generate significant bias in the estimates. To solve this, one...
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Using rich register data to analyze response behavior in a survey on health and economic standard, a model to explain contact and participation probabilities is estimated. A main result is that both probabilities are lower among respondents out of the labor market, who are immigrants and on...
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Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
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