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When to Release the Lockdown? A Wellbeing Framework for Analysing Costs and Benefits

Layard, Richard - 2020

It is politicians who have to decide when to release the lockdown, and in what way. In doing so, they have to balance many considerations (as with any decision). Often the different considerations appear incommensurable so that only the roughest of judgements can be made. For example, in the...

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The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Ferranna, Maddalena; Robinson, Lisa A.; Cadarette, Daniel; … - 2022

In 2021, the Biden Administration issued mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and contractors and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates have been subject to legal challenges and some have been halted or delayed, rigorous appraisal...

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For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior

Conti, Gabriella; GIUSTINELLI, PAMELA - 2023

the UK. We estimate a model of compliance choice with uncertain costs and benefits to quantify utility tradeoffs … fail to comply and trust breaks down, the risk tolerant and those without prior COVID experience comply less, the …

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Artificial Intelligence and Reduced Smes' Business Risks. A Dynamic Capabilities Analysis During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are associated with reduced business risks for SMEs. A new 10-item scale was developed to capture the use of AI applications in...

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Willingness to Take Risk : The Role of Risk Conception and Optimism

Dohmen, Thomas J. - 2018

take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this disposition, which we call risk conception, is … strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … question captures this disposition alongside pure risk preference. This enlightens why the general risk question is a better …

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The Optimal Minimum Wage with Regulatory Uncertainty

Bennett, John - 2015

For two different regulatory standards, we examine the optimal minimum wage in a competitive labour market when the government is uncertain about supply and demand. Solutions are related to underlying supply and demand conditions, and the extent of uncertainty and of rationing efficiency. We...

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The Effect of Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Europe

Gonzalez, Libertad - 2006

This paper analyzes a panel of 18 European countries spanning from 1950 to 2003 to examine the extent to which the legal reforms leading to easier divorce that took place during the second half of the 20th century have contributed to the increase in divorce rates across Europe. We use a...

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Discrimination and the Effects of Drug Testing on Black Employment

Wozniak, Abigail - 2015

drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the …

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Does Community Property Discourage Unpartnered Births?

Ekert Jaffé, Olivia; Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2021

This paper investigates the likelihood of an unpartnered birth as a function of laws regulating the division of joint property in case of divorce. Based on a rational choice model of marriage and assuming that on average women earn less than men, we predict that women are less likely to have an...

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Gender Diversity, Labour in the Boardroom and Gender Quotas

Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022

This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...

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