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The Interplay of Economic, Social and Political Fragmentation
Bosworth, Steven - 2019
values-driven identities: individualism (focused on status concerns), communitarianism (focused on the benefits of social …
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Technological Advance, Social Fragmentation and Welfare
Snower, Dennis; Bosworth, Steven - 2021
This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that technological progress falls primarily on market-traded commodities rather than prosocial relationships, since the latter intrinsically require the expenditure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250040
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Individualism, Human Capital Formation, and Labor Market Success
Hartinger, Katharina; Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; … - 2021
There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better … of individualism by exploiting variation between migrants at the origin country, origin language, and person level … adult education activities. In fact, individualism is more important in explaining adult skill formation than any other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799691
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants or Science? – Lessons from Ordoliberalism
Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2023
, and is rooted in normative individualism. It provides a benchmark by which rules and institutions can be judged as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290292
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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118350
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Workforce or Workfare?
Brett, Craig - 2011
This article explores the use of workfare as part of an optimal tax mix when labor supply responses are along the extensive margin. Particular attention is paid to the interaction between workfare and an earned income tax credit, two policies that are designed to provide additional incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124395
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Fixed-Term and Permanent Employment Contracts : Theory and Evidence
Cao, Shutao - 2014
This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069444
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The (Structural) Gravity of Epidemics
Cuñat, Alejandro - 2020
Epidemiological models assume gravity-like interactions of individuals across space without microfoundations. We combine a simple epidemiological frame-work with a dynamic model of individual location choice. The model predicts that flows of people across space obey a structural gravity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833717
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The Tradeoff between Indirect Network Effects and Product Differentiation in a Decarbonized Transport Market
Andreassen, Gøril L. - 2020
What factors determine whether it is optimal with one or more technologies in a decarbonized road transport sector, and what policies should governments choose? We investigate these questions theoretically and numerically through a static, partial equilibrium model for the road transport market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833722
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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation Over the Business Cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2020
This paper studies the extent to which the cyclicality of gross and net occupational mobility shapes that of aggregate unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational mobility and unemployment duration over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833736