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This article investigates whether decision makers intuitively optimize close to the normative prediction in … entrepreneurial decision situations where their time must be allocated between a wage job and a newly formed venture. We offer an … with systematic deviations that are consistent with well-known decision anomalies. Risk propensity is found to have an …
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This paper investigates the behaviour in repeated decision situations. The experimental study shows that subjects show … low or no risk-aversion, but put very high value on the opportunity to sell the lottery in every stage of the decision … behaviour ; decision-making experiments …
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Most models of labor markets and (un)employment neglect how competition among firms or sectors of the economy affects their hiring of workers and working times. Our approach pays special attention to such effects by proposing a complex stage game where firms invest in capital equipment before...
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A model of herding behavior on the labor market is discussed where employers only receive signals with limited precision about the workers' types, but can observe previous employers' decisions. In particular, we study a situation where the employer and the worker can influence the signal...
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In this paper we analyze the sources of German unemployment within a structural vector error correction model (SVECM) framework. For this purpose, we propose a method to estimate an exactly identified Subset SVECM, which is a SVECM with short run parameter restrictions. A cointegration analysis...
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The aim of this paper is to provide an alternative way of specification and estimation of a labor supply model. The proposed estimation procedure can be included in the so called predicted wage methods and its main interest is twofold. First, under standard assumptions in studies of labor...
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economic theory suggests to solve the decision problem. But since real decision makers can hardly be expected to behave …In this paper I consider a complex decision problem where subjects have to cope with a time horizon of uncertain …
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