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Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects
Lefebvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand; Villeval, … - HAL - 2009
Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental investigations. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later choices may be influenced by earlier ones. This paper reports instead between-subject results on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791266
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Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects
Lefebvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand; Villeval, Marie … - HAL - 2010
Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental investigations. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later choices may be influenced by earlier ones. This paper reports instead between-subject results on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791715
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A simple theory of the optimal number of immigrants
Chao, Chi-Chur; Hazari, Bharat R.; Laffargue, Jean-Pierre - HAL - 2008
This paper develops a simple model to explain two stylised facts about immigration. First, some countries have a low … ratio of migrants in their population, while other wealthy countries have a high number of migrants. In fact such migrants … are of the same order of magnitude as their domestic workforce. Secondly, migrants are often segregated in jobs. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930197
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Vieillissement de la population en Italie et efficacité des réformes Amato et Dini : un modèle d'équilibre général à générations imbriquées
Magnani, Riccardo - HAL - 2006
L'objectif de ce papier est d'analyser les impacts du vieillissement de la population italienne sur le système économique et en particulier sur le système de retraite afin d'évaluer l'efficacité des réformes mises en place durant les années 90 (réforme Amato en 1992 et réforme Dini en...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323943
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A general equilibrium evaluation of the sustainability of the new pension reforms in Italy
Magnani, Riccardo - HAL - 2011
Most European countries have recently introduced pension system reforms to face the financial problem related to population ageing. Italy is not an exception. The reforms introduced during the Nineties (Amato Reform in 1992 and Dini Reform in 1995), even if they will produce a strong reduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323944
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Do Immigrants Cause Crime?
Bianchi, Milo; Buonanno, Paolo; Pinotti, Paolo - HAL - 2012
We examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the period 1990 … immigration toward destination countries other than Italy to identify the causal impact of exogenous changes in Italy's immigrant … population. According to these estimates, immigration increases only the incidence of robberies, while leaving unaffected all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647506
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Immigration and the export decision to the home country
Koenig, Pamina - HAL - 2009
This paper analyzes the effect of immigrants' networks on the decision of individual firms to starting exporting to the immigrants' home country. Existing evidence on the trade-creating effect of immigrants show a robust effect, however at the national or regional level. Using French exports at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738711
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Product complexity, quality of institutions and the pro-trade effect of immigrants
Briant, Anthony; Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren - HAL - 2009
immigrants is the most valuable, immigration enhances imports regardless of the quality of institutions in the partner country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738730
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The French Unhappiness Puzzle: the Cultural Dimension of Happiness
Senik, Claudia - HAL - 2013
This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of similar affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle the influence of objective circumstances versus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738792
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Do immigrants cause crime?
Bianchi, Milo; Buonanno, Paolo; Pinotti, Paolo - HAL - 2008
In this paper we examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the … population in Italy. According to these estimates, immigration increases only the incidence of robberies, while leaving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738921