A wide range of public figures from the social sciences, politics and business have proposed paying every citizen a fixed amount of income without means testing or work requirement. The idea is fascinating. Most recently, a widely reported crowd-funding initiative from Berlin collected EUR12,000...

Eine Reihe von Persönlichkeiten aus Wissenschaft, Politik und Unternehmertum unterstützen die Idee eines bedingungslosen Einkommens für jeden Bürger, das unabhängig von Vermögen und Bereitschaft zu Erwerbsarbeit gezahlt wird. Die Idee fasziniert. So schaffte es eine Initiative aus Berlin...

Jobs offer different wages and different non-monetary working conditions. This paper investigates how the demand for non-monetary aspects evolves over changing wealth levels. Wages do not perfectly compensate individuals for differential utility of jobs in a labour market with informational...

Preferences over jobs depend on wages and non-wage aspects. Variation in wealth may change the importance of income as a motivation for working. Higher wealth levels may make good non-wage characteristics relatively more important. This hypothesis is tested empirically using a reduced form...

Preferences over jobs depend on wages and non-wage aspects. Variation in wealth may change the importance of income as a motivation for working. Higher wealth levels may make good non-wage characteristics relatively more important. This hypothesis is tested empirically using a reduced form...

It has been argued that Africa will not be able to export manufactures as it lacks the necessary skills. Without an ability to export there will only be an incentive to invest in the sector if domestic demand grows rapidly. Comparative data for four African countries - the Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya...

Preferences for transport activities are often considered only in terms of time and money. Whilst congestion in automobile traffic increases costs by raising trip durations, the same is less obvious in public transport (PT), especially rail-based. This has lead many economic analyses to conclude...

Eine Reihe von Persönlichkeiten aus Wissenschaft, Politik und Unternehmertum unterstützen die Idee eines bedingungslosen Einkommens für jeden Bürger, das unabhängig von Vermögen und Bereitschaft zu Erwerbsarbeit gezahlt wird. Die Idee fasziniert. So schaffte es eine Initiative aus Berlin...

A wide range of public figures from the social sciences, politics and business have proposed paying every citizen a fixed amount of income without means testing or work requirement. The idea is fascinating. Most recently, a widely reported crowd-funding initiative from Berlin collected EUR12,000...