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The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures

Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality – such as the Big Five and...

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Do I Have What It Takes? Equilibrium Search with Type Uncertainty and Non-Participation

Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

unemployment to non-participation in equilibrium. In contrast, existing models typically maintain stationarity and appeal to … exogenous stochastic shocks to generate transitions from unemployment to non-participation. Our model is based on relaxing a … first implication of the model is a declining hazard from unemployment to employment, arising due to erosion of self …

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Unemployment and Right-Wing Extremist Crime

Falk, Armin; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … previously not used data set which includes all officially recorded right-wing criminal acts in Germany. These data are recorded … fact a significant positive relation between unemployment and rightwing criminal activities. We show further that the big …

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Self-Confidence and Search

Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Standard search theory assumes that individuals know, with certainty, how they compare to competing searchers in terms of ability. In contrast, we hypothesize that searchers are uncertain about relative ability, with important implications for search behavior. We test our hypotheses in a...

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Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Prevalence, Behavior and Success

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...

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Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration

Jaeger, David A.; Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

markets in Germany. This result is robust to stratifying by age, sex, education, national origin, and a variety of other …

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