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We allow the preference of a political majority to determine boththe corporate governance structure and the division of profits betweenhuman and financial capital. In a democratic society where financialwealth is concentrated, a political majority may prefer to restraingovernance by dispersed...
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Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health, with consequences for wellbeing in old age. Systematic differences in the accuracy of longevity expectations may partly explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education...
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This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/46/4/875.short">'The Journal of Human Resources'</A>.<p>Anchoring vignettes are increasingly used to identify and correct heterogeneity in the reporting of health, work disability, life satisfaction, political efficacy, etc. with the aim of improving interpersonal...</p></a>
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of an organization. We argue that to further our understanding it should be understood in terms of human cognition of a …
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pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …
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We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed … the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but …
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up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is …
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ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one …
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pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …
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unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor …
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