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Anonymous Job Applications in Europe
Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle - 2013
Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended effects result in practice, in several European countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088997
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Incorporation and Taxation : Theory and Firm-Level Evidence
Egger, Peter H. - 2009
This paper provides a theory and firm-level evidence on the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs in a model of taxes and corporate governance. The theory explains how the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs is driven by taxation (corporate and personal income taxes), corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158386
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Unwillingness to Pay for Privacy : A Field Experiment
Beresford, Alastair - 2015
We measure willingness to pay for privacy in a field experiment. Participants were given the choice to buy a maximum of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038726
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Opt in Versus Opt Out : A Free-Entry Analysis of Privacy Policies
Degryse, Hans - 2006
There is much debate on how the flow of information between firms should be organized, and whether existing privacy … laws should be amended. We offer a welfare comparison of the three main current policies towards consumer privacy … costly to opt in or opt out, privacy policies shape firms' ability to collect and use customer information, and affect their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779192
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Image Versus Information : Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
Ali, S. Nageeb - 2016
information aggregation. We derive the optimal degree of privacy/publicity and matching rate, then analyze how they depend on the … in the fundamental or the image-motivated component of average preferences), privacy should generally be greater than in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990864
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'Now that You Mention It' : A Survey Experiment on Information, Salience and Online Privacy
Marreiros, Helia - 2016
paper investigates whether highlighting positive or negative aspects of online privacy, thereby mitigating the informational … problem, can affect consumers' privacy actions and attitudes. Results of two online survey experiments indicate that … informed about positive attitudes of companies towards their privacy. On the other hand, they do not change their attitudes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996793
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Union Threat and Non-Union Employment : A Natural Experiment on the Use of Temporary Employment in British Firms
Salvatori, Andrea - 2011
This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the effect of the threat of unionisation on the use of a predominantly non-union type of employment, i.e. temporary employment. The identification strategy exploits an exogenous variation in union threat induced in the UK by new legislation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128214
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Why are Saving Rates so High in China?
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2011
In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high national saving rate at 34-53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the past three decades and a surge in the saving rate by 11 percentage points from 2000-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130462
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Women Move Differently : Job Separations and Gender
Hirsch, Boris - 2010
Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138731
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The Exporter Productivity Premium Along the Productivity Distribution : First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models
Powell, David - 2010
An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies after controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139057