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Firms' ethics, consumer boycotts, and signalling
Glazer, Amihai (contributor); Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor) - 2008
This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716536
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Using response times to measure strategic complexity and the value of thinking in games
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2017
Response times are a simple low-cost indicator of the process of reasoning in strategic games (Rubinstein, 2007; Rubinstein, 2016). We leverage the dynamic nature of response-time data from repeated strategic interactions to measure the strategic complexity of a situation by how long people think on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607565
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Creative and strategic capabilities of generative AI : evidence from large-scale experiments
Bohren, Noah; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Lalive, Rafael - 2024
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has made substantial progress, but its full capabilities remain unclear, and we still lack a comprehensive understanding of how people augment productivity with AI and perceive AI-generated outputs. This study compares the ability of AI to a representative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015064420
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Do migrants get good jobs in Australia? : the role of ethnic networks in job search
Mahuteau, Stéphane (contributor);  … - 2008
We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of settlement. We find that there are initial downward movements along the occupational ladder, followed by improvements. As a result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716528
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The effects of health and health shocks on hours worked
Cai, Lixin (contributor); Mavromaras, Kostas G. (contributor) - 2008
We investigate the impact of health on working hours in recognition of the fact that leaving the labour market due to persistently low levels of health stock or due to new health shocks, is only one of the possibilities open to employees. We use the first six waves of the HILDA survey to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716534
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Occupational segregation and the gender wage gap in private- and public-sector employment : a distributional analysis
Barón, Juan D. (contributor);  … - 2008
distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender segregation within sector-specific occupations in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726799
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The "negative" assimilation of immigrants : a special case
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2008
countries (i.e., the UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia/New Zealand) to the United States. Comparisons with the native born are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726800
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Selection criteria and the skill composition of immigrants : a comparative analysis of Australian and US employment immigration
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper uses survey data on employment immigrants in Australia and the United States to identify the main …. (4) Within a sending country, Australia attracts less total but higher-skill migrants than does the United States. This … can be attributed, however, to the fact that the skill price in Australia is lower than the U.S. skill price, so that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726801
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The economics of language : an introduction and overview
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008
and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729415
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The asset portfolios of native-born and foreign-born households
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyses the net worth and asset portfolios of native- and foreign-born Australian families using HILDA (wave 2) data. Specifically, we estimate a system of asset equations with an adding-up constraint imposed to control for variation in households' total net worth. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652685