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Social Security and Institutions for Intergenerational, Intragenerational and International Risk Sharing

Shiller, Robert J. - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 1998

Social security system old age insurance systems are devices for the sharing of income risks of elderly people with others. Risks can be shared intergenerationally (with the young of the same country), intragenerationally (with other elderly of the same country) or internationally (with...

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Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?

Krueger, Alan B.; Schkade, David A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with …

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Knightian Decision Theory and Econometric Inference

Bewley, Truman F. - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 1988

probabilities assumed in Knightian decision theory. I argue that some standard uses of classical inference are Knightian in spirit …

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Choice Over Time

Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

they are really the most challenging ones for conventional theory. New developments are emerging both at the theoretical …

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Neighbourhood Effects Research at a Crossroads: Ten Challenges for Future Research

van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Neighbourhood effects research is at a crossroads since current theoretical and empirical approaches do not seem to be moving the debate forward. In this paper, we present a set of ten challenges as a basis for a new research agenda which will give new direction to the neighbourhood effects...

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