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Experienced versus Decision Utility of Income: Relative or Absolute Happiness

Vendrik, Maarten; Hirata, Johannes - 2003

This paper investigates relative or absolute happiness.

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Einkommen und Ausgaben älterer Menschen in Nordrhein-Westfalen

Reichert, Jürgen; Born, Andreas; Frerichs, Frerich; … - 2003

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Anatomy of a Health Scare : Education, Income and the MMR Controversy in the UK

Anderberg, Dan; Chevalier, Arnaud; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly absorb new information about health technology. The MMR controversy in the UK provides a case where, for a brief period of time, some highly publicized research suggested...

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A Gender Perspective on Self-Employment Entry and Performance as Self-Employed

Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Wadensjö, Eskil - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

paper investigates variations in recruitment to self-employment and in self-employment performance by gender and by …

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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview

Chiswick, Barry R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...

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Bairoch Revisited. Tariff Structure and Growth in the Late 19th Century

Tena-Junguito, Antonio - Universidad Carlos III <Madrid> / Departamento de Economía; … - 2009

results show that income, factor endowment, and policy independence are important to explain regional asymmetries between …

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Regional Income Dispersion and Market Potential in the Late Nineteenth Century Hapsburg Empire

Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

for its 22 major regions. The paper argues that regional income differentials were significantly larger, that intra …

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The Triumph and Denouement of the British Fiscal State: Taxation For the Wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815

O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

revenues. However, specific tax rates (which at that time were the norm) implied that the state’s real income would fall in …

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Trade, Convergence and Globalisation: the dynamics of change in the international income distribution, 1950-1998

Epstein, Philip; Howlett, Peter; Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

reach the levels of income enjoyed by the richest nations.[...] …

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Income distribution and convergence: the European experience, 1870-1992

Epstein, Philip; Howlett, Peter; Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

decade. Galor identified three forms of long run percapita income convergence: absolute convergence, whereby convergence …

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