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Age-adjusted measures of earnings inequality in the United States, 1980-2010
Schirle, Tammy - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2662-2669
I demonstrate a simple procedure for creating age-adjusted earnings distribution statistics, using US data and recentered influence function regression methods. As the baby boom generation has moved toward the latter part of their career, earnings distribution statistics for the working age...
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Estimated hedonic wage function and value of life in an African country
Benkhalifa, Abdelaziz; Lanoie, Paul; Ayadi, Mohamed - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 4, pp. 3023-3031
decrease occupational risk fatalities could use this outcome as a benchmark. …
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Do differing pay schemes help close the gender gap in overconfidence?
Lahav, Eyal; Nir, Arad; Siniver, Erez - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 4, pp. 2107-2114
We conducted an experiment to compare how overconfidence is influenced by performance-based and fixed payment schemes. Participants in the experiment were students prior to taking a final exam in Introduction to Microeconomics. We find that most participants were overconfident regarding their...
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Do differing pay schemes help close the gender gap in overconfidence
Lahav, Eyal; Nir, Arad; Siniver, Erez - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 30-36
We conducted an experiment to compare how overconfidence is influenced by performance-based and fixed payment schemes. Participants in the experiment were students prior to taking a final exam in Introduction to Microeconomics. We find that most participants were overconfident regarding their...
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A note on the decomposition technique of economic indices
Mori, Kota; Chen, Joe; Choi, Yun Jeong; Sawada, Yasuyuki; … - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 2710-2715
This note introduces a generalized version of multi-component decomposition method, which disintegrates a growth rate of an index into the roles of individual components. The method can be applied to two classes of indices: the additive-product form and the product-additive form. The application...
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Labour and leisure costs of informal caregivers
Marcén, Miriam - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 449-455
In this work, we study whether labour and leisure costs reported by informal caregivers must be analysed separately, using two comparable Spanish samples, for the years 1994 and 2004. We do this since informal care introduces an additional time constraint on the individual, which complicates the...
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Risk Parity in the Brazilian Market
de Souza, Pierre - 2017
Using sectorial indices of the Brazilian market, we compare the portfolio optimization approach known as risk parity … portfolio strategy, since portfolio variance is considered as risk measure. Empirical results demonstrate that the risk parity … different estimators of the covariance matrix had little influence on the results obtained through the risk parity approach …
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Promotion Policy and Firm Size
Zax, Ori - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 3347-3356
In contrast to the predictions of conventional economic theory, it is well documented that similar workers receive wages positively correlated with the size of the firm employing them. To explain these findings we augment the Waldman (1984) framework by adding a size variable and construct a...
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Do women benefit from competitive markets? Product market competition and the gender pay gap in Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 2, pp. 1618-1624
Using a large linked employer–employee dataset for Germany with a direct plant-level measure of product market competition and controlling for job-cell fixed effects, we investigate whether relative wages of women benefit from strong competition. We find that the unexplained gender pay...
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Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in a Cross Section: An Analysis of Linked Employer-Employee Data for the Years 1995 to 2007
Stüber, Heiko - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 2, pp. 1797-1812
Applying unconditional quantile regression to a linked employer-employee dataset from Germany, I show that downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR) affects workers not only at the lower tail of the wage change distribution but over the entire distribution. The effect of the inflation rate on the...
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