Outputs (30)

Navigating technological shifts: Worker perspectives on AI and emerging technologies impacting well-being (2024)
Journal Article

This paper asks whether workers’ experience of working with new technologies and workers’ perceived threats of new technologies are associated with expected well-being. Using survey data for 25 OECD countries we find that both experiences of new tech... Read More about Navigating technological shifts: Worker perspectives on AI and emerging technologies impacting well-being.

Artificial Intelligence perceptions and life satisfaction (2024)
Journal Article

The paper estimates whether there is any relationship between life satisfaction and people’s perceptions towards artificial intelligence. Using data from 39 European countries collected in 2021, it is consistently found that people with negative perc... Read More about Artificial Intelligence perceptions and life satisfaction.

Individualism, universalism and climate change (2024)
Journal Article

Is “individualism” pure selfishness?. The climate change literature often assumes so. However, individualism can be seen as capturing values aligned with self-determination and self-achievement but also universalism. Indeed, cultural psychology recog... Read More about Individualism, universalism and climate change.

Individualism and attitudes towards reporting corruption: Evidence from post-communist economies (2021)
Journal Article

Individualistic values are often presented as promoting economic development; however, their links to relevant behaviour and preferences at the micro-level remain under-explored. Here we investigate the relationship between individualistic values and... Read More about Individualism and attitudes towards reporting corruption: Evidence from post-communist economies.

Network survival strategies of migrant entrepreneurs in large cities: Analysis of Albanian firms in Milan (2020)
Journal Article

This paper addresses the role of cultural bias (preference for what is culturally more akin) in the entrepreneurial choice regarding different types of social networks in the context of urban mixed embeddedness. We test empirically the presence and a... Read More about Network survival strategies of migrant entrepreneurs in large cities: Analysis of Albanian firms in Milan.

Fear of robots and life satisfaction (2020)
Journal Article

The use of robots and in particular next-generation robots in the production of goods and services is increasing. What impact robots are having on people’s quality of life, including workers, is as yet under-explored. This paper provides initial fi... Read More about Fear of robots and life satisfaction.

Bribery, motivations for bribery and life satisfaction in transitional countries (2020)
Journal Article

The focus on bribery and corruption and its impact on life satisfaction is relatively new in the economics and development studies literature. This paper contributes to this emerging field by asking whether reasons for making informal payments are c... Read More about Bribery, motivations for bribery and life satisfaction in transitional countries.

Former Communist party membership and bribery in the post-socialist countries (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Association for Comparative Economic Studies We study the effect of former Communist party membership on paying bribes to public officials and motivations for bribery, 25 years after the fall of communist rule. Data come from a large represent... Read More about Former Communist party membership and bribery in the post-socialist countries.

Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, The Author(s). Research into the relation between religion and happiness offers inconclusive evidence. Religion seems to matter but it is not entirely clear how and why. Moreover much of the research to date is rooted in western experiences.... Read More about Happiness in Bangladesh: The Role of Religion and Connectedness.

The resource curse without natural resources: Expectations of resource booms and their impact (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal African Society. All rights reserved. Many resource-rich countries have experienced a range of negative economic and political effects from natural resource extraction, often... Read More about The resource curse without natural resources: Expectations of resource booms and their impact.

‘Choose to be optimistic, it feels better?’ Evidence of optimism on employment utility (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Board of Trustees of the Bulletin of Economic Research and John Wiley & Sons Ltd Individual's expected wages exceed predicted market wages. Rational expectations imply the divergence should be zero. If individuals over-estimate the return fr... Read More about ‘Choose to be optimistic, it feels better?’ Evidence of optimism on employment utility.

Sample selection and bribing behaviour: Evidence from post-socialist countries and Western Europe (2015)
Journal Article

We study the individual-level determinants of bribing public officials. Particular attention is paid to the issue of respondents’ non-random selection into contact with public officials, which may result in biased estimates. Data come from the 2010 L... Read More about Sample selection and bribing behaviour: Evidence from post-socialist countries and Western Europe.

Global economic crisis and corruption (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. We study the effects of the 2008–2009 global economic crisis on the household experience of bribing public officials. The data come from the Life in Transition-2 survey, conducted in 2010 in 30 post-s... Read More about Global economic crisis and corruption.

Trusting neighbours or strangers in a racially divided society: Insights from survey data in South Africa (2013)
Journal Article

In this paper, we investigate reported measures of trust in South Africa, collected in the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study. In particular, we compare responses to two questions asked of all adult respondents about the likelihood that a lost walle... Read More about Trusting neighbours or strangers in a racially divided society: Insights from survey data in South Africa.

Fractionalization and well-being: Evidence from a new South African data set (2012)
Journal Article

This paper aims to test whether a number of fractionalization variables that capture cultural and economic diversity have any impact on reported life satisfaction as well as happiness. Controlling for standard economic and non-economic variables, we... Read More about Fractionalization and well-being: Evidence from a new South African data set.

Smoking ban and life satisfaction: Evidence from the UK (2012)
Journal Article

This paper contributes to the literature on happiness economics by testing whether a national smoking ban contributes to changes in smoking behaviour amongst smokers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Based on 'set-point' theory and the idea of... Read More about Smoking ban and life satisfaction: Evidence from the UK.

Crime and happiness amongst heads of households in Malawi (2010)
Journal Article

This paper uses 2005 Malawian data to investigate the link between crime and happiness in Malawi. Detailed descriptive statistics reveal that crime is a gendered issue and econometric analyses show that males and females respond differently to differ... Read More about Crime and happiness amongst heads of households in Malawi.

Job satisfaction and employment equity in South Africa (2009)
Journal Article

This paper is the first to estimate job satisfaction equations in post-Apartheid South Africa. Absolute earnings contribute to greater job satisfaction. Racial group is also an important predictor of job satisfaction, but, when interacted with a prox... Read More about Job satisfaction and employment equity in South Africa.

The relationship between economic and subjective wellbeing indicators in Peru (2009)
Journal Article

Previous studies in Peru have identified apparent mismatches between people's perceptions of their wellbeing and indicators of their material welfare. This paper draws on primary data from relatively poor localities in Central Peru to investigate the... Read More about The relationship between economic and subjective wellbeing indicators in Peru.

Life satisfication in Malawi and the importance of relative consumption, polygamy and religion (2008)
Journal Article

Happiness equations for Malawi are estimated using a new household survey. It is apparent that absolute consumption level is strongly associated with satisfaction. Both objective and subjective relative consumption in the neighbourhood is positively... Read More about Life satisfication in Malawi and the importance of relative consumption, polygamy and religion.

Poverty, networks and location: The determinants of job-search in South Africa (2008)
Journal Article

Previous work into the decision to search or not for work when unemployed has found that local unemployment rates, education level and social networks are important in the case of South Africa. This paper introduces a number of additional variables i... Read More about Poverty, networks and location: The determinants of job-search in South Africa.

Economic welfare, poverty and subjective wellbeing (2008)
Book Chapter

Development is something we all aspire to, but also readily criticize for failing to live up to our hopes of sustained improvement in human wellbeing. This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and w... Read More about Economic welfare, poverty and subjective wellbeing.

The racial employment gap in South Africa (2004)
Journal Article

The aim of this paper was to estimate whether the probability of an employment gap between White and African, and Coloured and Asian labour force participants had changed between 1995 and 2002. For each of the four years the expected racial employmen... Read More about The racial employment gap in South Africa.

Gender wage differentials and discrimination in the New South Africa (2002)
Journal Article

Research into discrimination within South Africa (SA) has focused on racial issues, with gender issues being largely ignored. This study aims to estimate gender wage differentials and through decomposition analysis understand the different problems f... Read More about Gender wage differentials and discrimination in the New South Africa.

No end to the racial wage hierarchy in South Africa? (2002)
Journal Article

The South African apartheid system formally ended with the election of the African National Congress at the first all-race elections held in 1994. As a result, racist policies such as color barring, that particularly hindered the advancement of black... Read More about No end to the racial wage hierarchy in South Africa?.

Comparisons in gender wage differentials and discrimination between Germany and the United Kingdom (2001)
Journal Article

Due to the lack of consistent data, direct and robust comparisons of cross-country labour markets have been virtually impossible. This study uses a new panel data series that controls for inconsistencies, thus overcoming this problem. This study esti... Read More about Comparisons in gender wage differentials and discrimination between Germany and the United Kingdom.

A multinomial logit nondiscriminatory approach to estimating racial wage and occupational discrimination (2001)
Journal Article

This paper combines a technique to measure nondiscriminatory wage structures with a multinomial logit model to estimate both occupational racial discrimination and within-occupation racial wage underpayment and overpayment. Using a recent South Afric... Read More about A multinomial logit nondiscriminatory approach to estimating racial wage and occupational discrimination.

German wage underpayment: An investigation into labor market inefficiency and discrimination (2001)
Journal Article

Using stochastic panel wage frontiers, this paper estimates the relative underpayment of females and males in the reunified Germany. The estimates are initially applied to discrimination analysis. It finds that females have higher underpayment and th... Read More about German wage underpayment: An investigation into labor market inefficiency and discrimination.

A multilateral decomposition of racial wage differentials in the 1994 South African labour market (2000)
Journal Article

This article develops a new multilateral decomposition procedure for the analysis of wage differentials and applies this to the racial wage hierarchy in the South African labour market. Using micro-data on male workers from the 1994 October Household... Read More about A multilateral decomposition of racial wage differentials in the 1994 South African labour market.

Intentions to return: Evidence from Romanian migrants
Preprint / Working Paper

Romania faces an acute population crisis with an aging workforce and an increased number of emigrants particularly from the young, highly educated/skilled population. This paper uses a new cross-sectional data set of Romanian emigrants to find which... Read More about Intentions to return: Evidence from Romanian migrants.