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Randomizing Endowments: An Experimental Study of Rational Expectations and Reference-Dependent Preferences

Götte, Lorenz; Harms, Annette; Sprenger, Charles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

An important advance in the study of reference-dependent preferences is the discipline provided by coherent accounts of reference point formation. Kőszegi and Rabin (2006) provide such discipline by positing a reference point grounded in rational expectations. We examine the predictions of...

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Cultural Transmission and Discrimination

Saez-Marti, Maria; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Each worker belongs to either the majority or the minority group and, irrespective of the group she belongs to, can have good or bad work habits. These traits are transmitted from one generation to the next through a learning and imitation process which depends on parents' purposeful investment...

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Individual Rationality and Learning: Welfare Expectations in East Germany Post-Reunification

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

In this paper we test the Rational Expectations hypothesis using longitudinal data on expectations and realizations of individual welfare for East Germans in the years following reunification. German reunification was unexpected and delivered a large shock to the future prospects of the...

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Earnings and Community College Field of Study Choice in Canada

Boudarbat, Brahim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who successfully completed their programs in Canadian community colleges (CEGEPs in Quebec) in 1990 and 1995. Over...

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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … of time in Canada on earnings. …

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Self-Selection, Immigrant Public Finance Performance and Canadian Citizenship

DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Canada’s treasury circa 1996 over their life cycle. Naturalized citizens from OECD countries contributed the largest public …

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The Long-Term Effects of a Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991

Kuhn, Peter; Riddell, Chris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Using data spanning a half century for adjacent jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada, we study the long-term effects of …

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Canadian Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes: Why the Differences in Outcomes between Sweden and Canada?

Picot, Garnett; Sweetman, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Immigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden …. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada’s immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration … deteriorated significantly in Canada since the 1980s, as they have in many western countries including Sweden. …

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Quality and Quantity in Primary Care Mixed Payment Models: Evidence from Family Health Organizations in Ontario

Kantarevic, Jasmin; Kralj, Boris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model …

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The Recent Evolution of Retirement Patterns in Canada

Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

retirement behaviour in Canada. We also investigate trends in work after retirement. Our findings are in line with findings from …

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