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Punishment - and beyond
Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009
This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013061
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What is an Award Worth? An Econometric Assessment of the Impact of Awards on Employee Performance
Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009
Behavioral economics documents the importance of status and self-image concerns in the workplace, but is largely silent about how to instrumentalize them to induce effort. Awards - widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere - are motivators that derive their value from such social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979427
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Wage Policy and Endogenous Wage Rigidity: A Representative View From the Inside
Agell, Jonas; Bennmarker, Helge - CESifo - 2002
have an impact on attitudes concerning effort and motivation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051594
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Why are Small Firms Different? Managers’ Views
Agell, Jonas - CESifo - 2003
care about relative pay. I argue that these findings fit with behavioral stories of incentives and motivation, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196276
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Knight Fever – Towards an Economics of Awards
Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2005
Awards in the form of orders, medals, decorations and titles are ubiquitous in monarchies and republics, private organizations, not-for-profit and profit-oriented firms. Nevertheless, economists have disregarded this kind of non-material extrinsic incentive.The demand for awards relies on an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406118
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Education and Industrialization in Prussia: A Reassessment
Edwards, Jeremy - CESifo - 2013
This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann’s recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877667
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Great Expectations and Hard Times - The (Nontrivial) Impact of Education on Domestic Terrorism
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877794
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International Migration of Couples
Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2014
We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877818
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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - CESifo - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877909
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Human Capital Accumulation and the Macroeconomy in an Ageing Society
Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - CESifo - 2012
How do population ageing shocks affect the long-run macroeconomic performance of an economy? To answer this question we build a general equilibrium overlapping generations model of a closed economy featuring endogenous factor prices. Finitely-lived individuals are endowed with perfect foresight...
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