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Income changes do not influence political participation : evidence from comparative panel data
Jungkunz, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2021
The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects … on political involvement unfold over time. Using nine panel datasets from six countries, it analyzes whether income … income has an independent influence. Irrespective of indicator, specification, and method (hybrid models, inclusion of lags …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520504
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Income changes do not influence political participation: evidence from comparative panel data
Jungkunz, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2021
The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects … on political involvement unfold over time. Using nine panel datasets from six countries, it analyzes whether income … income has an independent influence. Irrespective of indicator, specification, and method (hybrid models, inclusion of lags …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487005
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Institutional Disruptions and the Philanthropy of Multinational Firms
Ballesteros, Luis; Magelssen, Catherine - 2021
This paper studies philanthropy by multinational enterprises (MNEs) during institutional disruptions—the sudden and unexpected, temporary, and systemic breakdowns in market-oriented institutions. The central argument is that, under institutional disruptions, MNEs aim to restore factors that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225604
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Economic Freedom and Philanthropy
Jackson, Jeremy; Beaulier, Scott - 2021
The correlations between economic freedom and human capabilities (e.g., income, health, education, happiness) are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218659
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The big carrot : high-stakes incentives revisited
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2009
Using an international dataset of about 35,000 subjects, this paper provides an empirical example of high-stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. First, we show that incentives (based on absolute belief) play a salient role in religious performance. Second, we find that, when both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863809
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Never Waste a 'Good' Crisis! Priming the Economic Aspect of Crises Fosters Social Capital Build-Up and Prosociality
Hargreaves Heap, Shaun P.; Koop, Christel; Matakos, … - 2021
Do crises make people more prosocial? And what role does communication play in promoting such attitudes and behavior? These answers matter for post-crisis economic recovery as social capital has been linked to growth. We leverage the incidence of COVID-19 --a multifaceted global crisis-- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223717
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Can Happiness Economics Help Explain Voluntary Open Source Activities? Some Exploratory Cross-Country Empirics
Engelbrecht, Hans-Jürgen - 2007
Voluntary non-commercial Internet-based distributed computing ('social sharing' for short) is an open source activity that is emerging as a distinct mode of resource allocation and economic production. This paper presents an exploratory cross-country analysis of factors determining the output of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053428
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Political Ideology and Generosity Around the Globe
Pizziol, Veronica; Demaj, Xhiselda; Di Paolo, Roberto; … - 2023
In a world severely put under stress by COVID-19, generosity becomes increasingly essential both when able to transcend local boundaries, building upon universalistic values, and when directed toward more local contexts, such as the native country. This study aims to investigate an...
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Using rich lists to study the super-rich and top wealth inequality : insights from Switzerland
Baselgia, Enea; Martínez, Isabel - 2024
We present a new data set we built based on Swiss rich lists going back to 1989. We show, among other things, that 60% of the super-rich are heirs-a fraction twice as large as in the US-and that wealth mobility at the very top has declined significantly. We find that top 0.01% wealth shares are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490904
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On the relation between income inequality and happiness : do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …-mobility countries turn out to be ambiguous. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; inequality ; income distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944651