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The Effect of Unemployment on Labor Earnings Inequality: Argentina in the Nineties

González, Martín; Menendez, Alicia - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2000

income inequality. We estimate individual earnings functions for employed people conditional on a working status … distribution of unemployed persons of particular year on a base year. By computing inequality measures using the actual and … simulated populations we are able to assess the impact of unemployment on earnings inequality. Additionally, we simulate changes …

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Where Should We Live?

Clark, Andrew E. - In: Review of Economic Analysis 2 (2010) 1, pp. 20-31

One of the central topics in recent empirical work on subjective well-being is that of comparisons to a reference group, over a variety of domains of economic and social life. One such reference group is neighbours. Any resulting spatial spillovers that are identified have potential implications...

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Consumption Commitments and Preferences for Risk

Postlewaite, Andrew; Samuelson, Larry; Silverman, Dan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2001

We examine an economy in which the cost of consuming some goods can be reduced by making commitments to consumption levels independent of the state. For example, it is cheaper to produce housing services via owner-occupied than rented housing, but the transactions costs associated with the...

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The Effect of Unemployment on Labor Earnings Inequality: Argentina in the Nineties

González, Martín; Menendez, Alicia - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2000

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Effects of Wealth and Income Uncertainty on the Decision to Work, to Search or Not to Participate at All

Maidorn, Susanne - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2002

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Should Central Banks Target Happiness? Evidence from Latin America

Luengas, Pavel; Ruprah, Inder J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

It has become common wisdom amongst monetary policy professionals that central banks in Latin America should adopt inflation targeting. Pure inflation targeting implicitly assumes a social loss welfare function dependent on only inflation. In this paper using subjective well-being survey data...

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Consumption Commitments and Employment Contracts, Fourth Version

Postlewaite, Andrew; Samuelson, Larry; Silverman, Dan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2006

We examine an economy in which the cost of consuming some goods can be reduced by making commitments that reduce flexibility. We show that such consumption commitments can induce consumers with risk-neutral underlying utility functions to be risk averse over small variations in income, but...

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Consumption Commitments and Employment Contracts

Postlewaite, Andrew; Samuelson, Larry; Silverman, Dan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2001

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Consumption Commitments and Employment Contracts

Postlewaite, Andrew; Samuelson, Larry; Silverman, Dan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2006

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Life Satisfaction Differences between Workers and Non-Workers - The Value of Participation per se

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Is working more than monetary income? This paper attempts to give an answer to this question on the basis of the German Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same household income, the monetary value of participating in...

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