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Volunteering and Life or Financial Shocks : Does Income and Wealth Matter?

Beatton, Tony - 2014

Volunteering is a dominant social force that signals a healthy state. However, although the literature on volunteering is extensive, knowledge on how life's discontinuities (life event shocks) affect volunteering is limited because most studies work with static (cross-sectional) data. To reduce...

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Citizen Support for the Welfare State : Determinants of Preferences for Income Redistribution

Rehm, Philipp - 2005

This paper explores the determinants of individual level support for income redistribution by the government. It argues … that there are two sources of preference formation when it comes to redistribution. People are either in favor of income … redistribution because they are disadvantaged, or they favor redistribution as a means to insure against income shocks. The paper …

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Social Capital and Relative Income Concerns : Evidence from 26 Countries

Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2007

Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individuals' attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, using the International Social Survey Programme 1998 data from 26 countries this paper investigates the impact of relative income on 14 measurements of social...

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Trust, Inequality, and Ethnic Heterogeneity

Leigh, Andrew - 2004

Using a large social survey, combined with precise data on neighborhood characteristics, I explore the factors that affect trust at a local level (localized trust) and at a national level (generalized trust) within Australia. Trust is positively associated with the respondent's education, and...

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Does Envy Destroy Social Fundamentals? The Impact of Relative Income Position on Social Capital

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Torgler, Benno - 2008

Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individual attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, this paper assesses such positional impact on social capital by applying 14 different measurements to International Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We...

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Does Envy Destroy Social Fundamentals? The Impact of Relative Income Position on Social Capital

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Torgler, Benno - 2006

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Intergenerational social mobility and assortative mating in Britain

Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2002

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Intergenerational social mobility and assortative mating in Britain

Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2002

This paper investigates the links between the socio-economic position of parents and the socio-economic position of their offspring and, through the marriage market, the socioeconomic position of their offspring's parents-in-law. Using the Goldthorpe-Hope score of occupational prestige as a...

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Post-reform trends in wage inequality : the case of urban Bolivia

Spatz, Julius; Steiner, Susan - 2002

This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields' (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends...

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Post-Reform Trends in Wage Inequality : The Case of Urban Bolivia

Spatz, Julius; Steiner, Susan - 2014

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