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While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents' quality of … of international tourist arrivals on the subjective well-being – happiness and life satisfaction – of residents in … results suggest that tourist arrivals reduce residents' life satisfaction. This negative relationship tends to be more …
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This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. The fact that the time consistency problem in taxation can make labor mobility beneficial even if governments are fully benevolent - which is known from other contexts - is...
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This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar...
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Incomplete information is a commitment device for time consistency problems. In the context of time consistent labor …
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We study the link between homeownership and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and housing tenure where homeowners commit a fixed budget to mortgage payments. Our model predicts that: (i) mortgage commitments, by amplifying risk aversion, diminish the likelihood that...
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Characteristics of couples on or about their wedding day and characteristics of weddings have been shown to predict marital outcomes. Little is known, however, about how the dates of the weddings predict marriage durability. Using Dutch marriage and divorce registries from 1999-2013, this study...
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consistent with a model of limited commitment in which a shock to household resources can alter bargaining power. We discuss the …
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, this paper investigates the determinants of worker commitment and the potential contribution of commitment to establishment … performance. An index of worker commitment is constructed from employer perceptions of the motivation of workers and their … retention and absenteeism propensities, while the determinants of commitment are fashioned from observations taken from the …
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intrahousehold commitment regimes: full commitment, no commitment, and limited commitment. We propose a test that distinguishes among … limited commitment. We then use our results to highlight several issues and caveats that arise when testing for commitment. …
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We investigate the relation of further training and employees' affective commitment. In doing so, we distinguish … training is associated with the affective commitment of their employees and on the other hand how individual participation in … further training relates to affective commitment. Using the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP), which is a longitudinally linked …
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