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practices between schools. Tentative analyses also indicate that counselors reduce students' uncertainty about their own … individual preferences at least to the same extent as uncertainty about objective measures such as employment prospects. …
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mechanism to insure themselves against higher degrees of uncertainty within their host countries. Furthermore, this finding …
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According to social-psychological research, feelings of uncertainty in decision-making evoke two opposite responses: (i …) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping of people, and hence less discrimination; (ii …
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of religious behaviour towards "Theoi" in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty …, individuals attempt to engage in a reciprocal contract with the source of uncertainty by sacrificing towards it. In our … uncertainty is lower. The findings imply that under circumstances of high uncertainty people are willing to sacrifice large …
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This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still attending school. Exogenous variation in the location...
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In this paper we try to understand the phenomena whereby a large proportion of the population evades tax payments. We present a model which incorporates elements from the theory of information cascades with the standard model of tax evasion and analyze the connection between the decision of a...
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We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are shocks to productivity, job destruction, the process...
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social security schemes, an ageing population thus leads to policy uncertainty in first pillar pensions. This paper sheds … presence of such policy uncertainty. To do so, I assess the influence of subjective policy change expectations on voluntary … for anticipated policy changes in old age social security and policy uncertainty in social security thus seems to lead to …
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depending on migrants origins and the type of assets. Understanding migrants' wealth and their perceived degree of assimilation …
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