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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 household. The 'corrected' impact that does take the change in household …

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Migration's Income and Poverty Impact Has Been Underestimated

Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 household. The ‘corrected’ impact that does take the change in household …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762256

Migration’s Income and Poverty Impact

Schiff, Maurice - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2006

In estimating the impact of migration on income and poverty, existing studies have typically overlooked the fact that … migration changes the size of the household. The ‘corrected’ impact that takes the change in household size into account is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472133

Das Glück der Migranten: Eine Lebenslaufanalyse zum subjektiven Wohlbefinden von Migranten der ersten Generation in Deutschland

Brockmann, Hilke - 2012

Wie glücklich sind Migranten der ersten Generation in Deutschland heute? Wie beeinflussen formelle oder informelle Diskriminierungen ihre Lebenszufriedenheit? Welchen Einfluss haben materielle und immaterielle Ressourcen? Welche Vergleichsmaßstäbe ziehen sie zur Beurteilung ihres Glücks...

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Perceptions of Inequality

Knell, Markus; Stix, Helmut - 2017

Although people's perception of (income or wealth) inequality has important e_ects on their decisions as economic agents or voters, little is known about how perceptions relate to measured inequality. We present a novel formal framework that is based on the assumption that people typically do...

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Who compares to whom? The anatomy of income comparisons in Europe

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - 2009

This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...

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Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2014

We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings into two broad types of individual attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the...

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Measuring the Selection of Pay Referents: A Methodological Analysis of the Questions on Pay Referents in the 2008 and 2009 SOEP Pretest Modules

Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - 2010

Income comparisons are among the key mechanisms used to explain satisfaction and happiness, among other outcomes. Yet progress on the questions of who people use as social referents and whether differential selection patterns exist can only be made based on valid and reliable measures of pay...

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The Social Comparison Scale: Testing the Validity, Reliability, and Applicability of the IOWA-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German Population

Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - 2011

Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...

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The Social Comparison Scale: Testing the Validity, Reliability, and Applicability of the Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German Population

Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - 2011

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