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Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany

Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our … theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker·s altruism, and increases or … decreases with a workers laziness depending on his altruism. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find that …

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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the "Children of the Wall"

Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment to estimate that the children from...

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Risk-Averse by Nation or by Religion?: Some Insights on the Determinants of Individual Risk Attitudes

Bartke, Stephan; Schwarze, Reimund - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

Research findings have proven that the willingness to take risks is distributed heterogeneously among individuals. In the general public, there is a widely held notion that individuals of certain nationalities tend to hold certain typical risk preferences. Furthermore, religious beliefs are...

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Risk Aversion and Reservation Wages

Pannenberg, Markus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

This study examines the relationship between individual risk aversion and reservation wages using a novel set of direct measures of individual risk attitudes from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We find that risk aversion has a significantly negative impact on the level of reservation...

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Educational Choice and Risk Aversion: How Important Is Structural vs. Individual Risk Aversion?

Hartlaub, Vanessa; Schneider, Thorsten - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

According to sociological theories on educational choice, risk aversion is the main driving force for class-specific educational decisions. Families from upper social classes have to opt for the academically most demanding, long-lasting courses to avoid an intergenerational status loss. Families...

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Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel...

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Stated and Revealed Heterogeneous Risk Preferences in Educational Choice

Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky...

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The "Bomb" Risk Elicitation Task

Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

This paper presents the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task (BRET), an intuitive procedure aimed at measuring risk attitudes. Subjects decide how many boxes to collect out of 100, one of which containing a bomb. Earnings increase linearly with the number of boxes accumulated but are zero if the bomb is...

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Members of German Federal Parliament More Risk-Loving than General Population

Heß, Moritz; Scheve, Christian von; Schupp, Jürgen; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

The article analyzes the question of whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in...

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Sind Politiker risikofreudiger als das Volk?: Eine empirische Studie zu Mitgliedern des Deutschen Bundestags

Heß, Moritz; Scheve, Christian von; Schupp, Jürgen; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

The paper seeks to answer whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in relation to...

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