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Institutions, shared guilt, and moral transgression
Rothenhäusler, Dominik; Schweizer, Nikolaus; Szech, Nora - 2013
We study how institutional design influences moral transgression. People are heterogeneous in their feelings of guilt and can share guilt with others. Institutions determine the number of supporters necessary for immoral outcomes to occur. With more supporters required, every supporter can share...
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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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The fiscal consequences of immigration: A study of local governments' expenditures
Virén, Matti E. E. - 2022
should be considered when making assessments on overall fiscal effects of migration. …
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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 … market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable … positive earnings and employment gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The size of the gains varies …
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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants
Corneo, Giacomo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019
We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and … stayers. Policy simulations are run in order to gauge the magnitude of these migration effects. Based on estimated …
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Policy uncertainty and inventor mobility
Bisset, Jordan; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten - 2022
We follow the migration patterns of European inventors and find evidence of a novel emigration determinant: policy …
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The fiscal consequences of immigration : a study of local governments' expenditures
Virén, Matti E. E. - 2022
should be considered when making assessments on overall fiscal effects of migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256706
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Intergenerational transfers and wealth in the Euro-area : the relevance of inheritances and gifts in absolute and relative terms
Tiefensee, Anita; Westermeier, Christian - 2016
Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well-being of households. Key determinants of private wealth include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the...
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The effect of social comparison on debt taking : experimental evidence
Grohmann, Antonia; Koch, Melanie - 2019
A number of studies show that there is a link between social comparison and high levels of household debt. However, the exact mechanisms behind this link are not yet well understood. In this paper, we perform a lab experiment designed to study the eff ects of social image concerns and peer...
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Active learning improves financial education : experimental evidence
Kaiser, Tim; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2018
We conduct a randomized field experiment to study the effects of two financial education interventions offered to small-scale retailers in Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with "traditional lecturing" within standardized lesson-plans. We find that active learning has a positive...
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