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With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper focuses on methodological issues arising from the usage of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. In addition to providing a...
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Laboratory experiments have become a wide-spread tool in economic research. Yet, there is still doubt about how well … monetary reward associated with participation in experiments; or appealing to the importance of helping research; or both. We … help research has no effect on sign-up. We then invite the so-recruited subjects to the laboratory to measure a range of …
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The paper surveys the methodology of generational accounting, a tool for gauging intertemporal imbalance in government …
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This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the preferences of fishermen whose main, and often only, source of income stems from using a common pool resource (CPR). The exploitation of a CPR involves a negative interpersonal and...
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that when presented with a particular set of research questions that lend themselves to a utility maximisation framework … ingredient for true economic collaborative research has been met in the field of citizenship acquisition. I review the existing … empirical research on citizenship acquisition and its economic impacts to support this argument. …
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replication studies, and I propose a way of generating more scientific replication that will make empirical economic research more …
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We use a sequential prisoner's dilemma game to measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: 100 college students, 94 non-student adults from the community surrounding the college and 1,069 adult trainee truckers in a...
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Social preference research has received considerable attention among economists in recent years. However, the empirical …
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Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...
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extensive overview of existing practices and datasets used in this field of research. We investigate existing methodologies and …
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