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Cordes, Charlotte; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2023

when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding motivated, overly optimistic beliefs about the workload they need … for motivated reasoning allows workers to hold substantially more optimistic beliefs and identify a causal link between … the exogenous variation in beliefs and the deferral of work to the future. This systematic belief-based delay of work …

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Effects of timing and reference frame of feedback: Evidence from a field experiment

Fischer, Mira; Wagner, Valentin - 2019

, who adjust their ability beliefs downwards in response to feedback. …

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The impact of protected areas on local livelihoods in the South Caucasus

Schott, Johanna; Kalatas, Talin; Nercissians, Emilia; … - 2016

Nature conservation has a long tradition in the South Caucasus, a region with very high biodiversity. Alongside century old nature reserves (NR) in Azerbaijan and Georgia, two new transboundary national parks (NP) have recently been created in Armenia and Georgia. All of these protected areas...

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Geographies of transition: The political and geographical factors of agrarian change in Tajikistan

Hofman, Irna; Visser, Oane - 2014

After more than two decades of agrarian change in Tajikistan, farming structures seem to crystallise. The first signs towards farm individualisation were observed only around 2000, which were the result of significant pressure from outside, when the post-conflict state was highly susceptible to...

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Does non-farm income diversivication in Northern Albania offer an escape from rural poverty?

Meyer, Wiebke; Möllers, Judith; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - 2008

The paper uses up-to-date household data from two Northern-Albanian regions. It summarises socio-economic facts on taking up remunerative non-farm employment and identifies the determinants of non-farm income diversification at the farm household level based on a binary logistic regression....

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Understanding Chinese consumption: The impact of hukou

Dreger, Christian; Wang, Tongsan; Zhang, Yanqun - 2013

The Chinese growth miracle was based on exports and investment in recent years. While strong output growth has been maintained even during the financial crisis, the imbalances within the country increased. To return to a more sustainable path of development, policies are directed to improve the...

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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children\'s acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s...

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Optimal policy: Which, where, and why

Furtado, Bernardo Alves; Andreão, Gustav Onofre - 2023

The paper exploits a simulation environment and its output indicators to compare the performance of "ex-ante" policy instruments across housing and social welfare domains. We create a progressive score to contrast six single and mixed policy instruments against a no-policy baseline. The multiple...

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Southwest as the new internal migration destination in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

Antalya and Muğla provinces located in southwestern Turkey have emerged as new magnets for internal migration in the country. Socio-economic, demographic and labor market characteristics of immigrants coming to these two provinces from various regions are studied to uncover the reasons fueling...

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The role of unemployment and job change when estimating the returns to migration

Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2019

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, this paper focuses on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings uncertainty, and job change in the source region. Migrants are found to be negatively selected with respect to labor market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and...

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