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This paper examines the tradeoffs inherent in guaranteed income proposals. Its perspective is international, using the Luxembourg Income Study and asking whether economic efficiency suffers when governments make greater efforts to protect the poor. Using two different measures of productivity growth, we find no big tradeoff between equity and efficiency. That is, during those times and in those countries ...
In:
The Journal of Socio-Economics
35 (2005), 1, 83-100
| Steven Pressman
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Luxembourg:
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
2010,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 557)
| Steven Pressman
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We test the stability of locus of control, a measure that has been attributed substantial explanatory power for economic outcomes since it depicts how much people believe in their ability to affect life outcomes. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find that a job loss due to a plant closure has no long-lasting effect on locus of control. The common assumption of its stability is thus not rejected. ...
In:
Labour Economics
53 (2018), August 2018, 63-74
| Malte Preuss, Juliane Hennecke
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In:
Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde ,
Nationalatlas Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Arbeit und Lebensstandard (Band 7)
Heidelberg: Spektrum / Elsevier
124-125
| Gisela Prey, Patricia Scherdin
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Konstanz:
Universität Konstanz, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Statistik, CILE,
1997,
(Diskussionpapier Nr. 41)
| Hedwig Prey
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Bern, Stuttgart und Wien:
Verlag Paul Haupt,
1998,
| Hedwig Prey
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This article analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about future income and legal status (in case of immigrants) is a key component in the determination of the level of precautionary savings. Using the German dataset, we exploit a natural experiment arising from a change in the nationality law in Germany to estimate the importance of precautionary ...
In:
Applied Economics
44 (2012), 21, 2767-2776
| Matloob Piracha, Yu Zhu
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Is there a relationship between political participation and individual life satisfaction? The idea that political participation makes people more satisfied with their lives has long been debated. However, the existing empirical research has not been very successful in demonstrating that such a relationship exists while some studies show that instead it is individual life satisfaction that impacts political ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
138 (2018), 2, 793-807
| André Pirralha
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Mannheim:
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW),
1992,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 92-17)
| Jörn-Steffen Pischke
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In:
Quartalshefte des ZEW
(1993), 1/1993, 66-89
| Jörn-Steffen Pischke