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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective

Conchita D’Ambrosio; Frick, Joachim R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...

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Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition

Bartos, Vojtech; Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in … selection decisions. Our model of allocation of costly attention implies that applicants from negatively stereotyped groups face … "attention discrimination": less attention in highly selective cherry-picking markets, where more attention helps applicants, and …

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Complex Tax Incentives: An Experimental Investigation

Abeler, Johannes; Jäger, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

How does the tax system's complexity affect people's reaction to tax changes? To answer this question, we conduct a real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of taxes. In one treatment the tax system is simple; in the other treatment it is highly complex. The...

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The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Incentive schemes affect performance and priorities of agents but, in reality, they can be complicated even for simple tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest in quantity and quality of output. We use data from...

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Manipulation of Choice Behavior

Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco; Tyson, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We introduce and study the problem of manipulation of choice behavior. In a class of two-stage models of decision making, with the agent's choices determined by three "psychological variables," we imagine that a subset of these variables can be selected by a "manipulator." To what extent does...

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A Constitutional Theory of the Family

Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...

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The Big Trade-Off in the World of Labor

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The world is changing rapidly. This paper describes key shifts and it discusses their likely impacts on employment-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However, there will be no "end of work". Rather, it is that...

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The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions

Eichhorst, Werner; Escudero, Veronica; Marx, Paul; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

perspective taking into account different channels of external, internal and wage flexibility determined by both the institutional … permanent and temporary jobs, working time adjustment, wage flexibility and active and passive labour market policies. The paper … internal flexibility. At the same time, however, it appears that the crisis has – at least in some cases – contributed to a …

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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the jon loss rate is much...

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Exports and Labour Demand: Searching for Functional Structure in Multi-Output Multi-Skill Technologies

Koebel, Bertrand M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

substitution. These conditions are then empirically investigated, in a framework that is flexible and does not lose its flexibility …

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