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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960126
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Cooperative Household Models
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We set out a general framework for cooperative household models, based on Samuelson’s idea of a household welfare function, but extending it to incorporate the key insight from Nash bargaining models - the idea that the household’s preference ordering over the utility profiles of its members...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566789
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Investment under Company-Level Pacts
Bellmann, Lutz; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Hübler, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To improve their competitiveness the companies aim to increase the funds available to finance the necessary investments …
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The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives
Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
improving efficiency. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969328
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Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T.K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries – Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...
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Does Performance Information Affect Job Seekers in Selecting Private Providers in Voucher-Based ALMP Programs?
Gerdes, Christer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265645
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How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso
Dauphin, Anyck; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
that the standard approach to test the collective model with distribution factors may yield misleading inference. We … generalize the model and provide an appropriate test procedure to assess its validity. Our new approach extends to households …. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …
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In 'Trusts' We Trust: Socially Motivated Private Schools in Nepal
Pal, Sarmistha; Saha, Bibhas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study school choice and school efficiency in terms of secondary school completion test scores by utilizing a unique …'s expenditure as a determinant of its efficiency per unit of cost. We find that when expenditure is not included, the trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790519
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884338
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Efficiency in a Search and Matching Economy with a Competitive Informal Sector
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Ulus, Mustafa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We consider a dual labor market with a frictional formal sector and a competitive informal sector. We show that the size of the informal sector is generally too large compared to the optimal allocation of the workers. It follows that our results give a rationale to informality-reducing policies.
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