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Worker reciprocity and employer investment in training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2002

by reciprocity. A reciprocal worker may be willing to give the firm a full return on its investment. We present empirical … evidence that supports the proposed mechanism. Workers with a high sensitivity to reciprocity have 15% higher training rates … than workers with a low sensitivity to reciprocity. …

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Employee recognition and performance : a field experiment

Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert A. J.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2013

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Possibly ill-behaved posteriors in econometric models

Hoogerheide, Lennart; Dijk, Herman K. van - 2008

Highly non-elliptical posterior distributions may occur in several econometric models, in particular, when the likelihood information is allowed to dominate and data information is weak. We explain the issue of highly non-elliptical posteriors in a model for the effect of education on income...

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Education and entrepreneurial choice : an instrumental variables analysis

Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: November 2010

Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using an instrumental variables approachand a data set of...

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On distributions of ratios

Broda, Simon A.; Kan, Raymond - 2013

A large number of exact inferential procedures in statistics and econometrics involve the sampling distribution of ratios of random variables. If the denominator variable is positive, then tail probabilities of the ratio can be expressed as those of a suitably defined difference of random...

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Returns to routine job tasks in the German labour market : an instrumental variables approach

Mihaylov, Emil - 2021 - Revision November 2021

This paper studies the impact of routine job tasks on workers wages in the German labour market. Using nationally representative data from the German Employment Survey, the paper finds that routine job tasks are negatively and significantly associated with workers hourly wages; the negative...

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A score-driven filter for causal regression models with time-varying parameters and endogenous regressors

Blasques, Francisco; Stegehuis, Noah - 2024

This paper proposes a score-driven model for filtering time-varying causal parameters through the use of instrumental variables. In the presence of suitable instruments, we show that we can uncover dynamic causal relations between variables, even in the presence of regressor endogeneity which...

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Anticipatory anxiety and wishful thinking

Engelmann, Jan; Lebreton, Maël; Schwardmann, Peter; … - 2019

It is widely hypothesized that anxiety and worry about an uncertain future lead to the adoption of comforting beliefs …

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Mental health literacy, beliefs and demand for mental health support among university students

Acampora, Michelle; Capozza, Francesco; Moghani, Vahid - 2022

This paper assesses the impact of a mental health literacy intervention on the demand for mental health support among university students. We run a field experiment with 2,978 university students from one of the largest Dutch universities. The literacy intervention provides information on the...

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Born that way : beliefs about genetics' importance and redistribution preferences

Pogliano, Andrea - 2024

's genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in … two workers earned based on their performance in a mathematical task. Across two treatments, I modify beliefs about the … study highlights that individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in …

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