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Labour market expectations and unemployment in Europe
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected by the European Commission over 444 months between...
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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative … patterns, but much smaller magnitudes in response to state-specific shocks. -- trust ; institutions ; confidence ; survey data …
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Nowcasting business cycles using toll data
Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
Nowcasting has been a challenge in the recent economic crisis. We introduce the Toll Index, a new monthly indicator for business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The index measures the monthly transportation activity performed by heavy transport vehicles across...
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Does democracy foster trust?
Rainer, Helmut (contributor); Siedler, Thomas (contributor) - 2006
trusting attitude than West Germans. This suggests a negative effect of communism in East Germany versus democracy in West … Germany on social and institutional trust. However, the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328070
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
We investigate whether two crucial determinants of economic decision making willingness to take risks and willingness to trust other people are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about these attitudes directly, and are good measures in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003481849
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Trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity : do these traits impact entrepreneurial dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...
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The economic costs of mass surveillance : insights from Stasi spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2015
social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic …
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Parental investment and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences and attitudes
Zumbühl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2013
We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in...
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Employee trust and workplace performance
Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; McHardy, Jolian P.; Taylor, Karl - 2014
We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then...
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Employee recognition and performance : a field experiment
Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert A. J.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2014
This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers...
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