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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank
Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884197
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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?
Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323383
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Fading Hope in the US
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in countries such as the US would lead to a collapse of society. Fading hopes in the population seem to confirm this. The paper rejects this interpretation since the decline in hopes cannot be traced back...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646298
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Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence
Konrad, Kai A.; Spadaro, Amedeo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We consider redistributional taxation between people with and without human capital if education is endogenous and if individuals differ in their perceptions about own ability. Those who see their ability as low like redistributive taxation because of the transfers it generates. Those who see...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703125
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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868129
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Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts
MacLeod, W. Bentley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper discusses the literature on the enforcement of incomplete contracts. It compares legal enforcement to enforcement via relationships and reputations. A number of mechanisms, such as the repeat purchase mechanism (Klein and Leffler (1981)) and efficiency wages (Shapiro and Stiglitz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233793
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Economic Integration of Intermarried Labour Migrants, Refugees and Family Migrants to Sweden: Premium or Selection?
Irastorza, Nahikari; Bevelander, Pieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees … Sweden. They also fully support the selection hypothesis for labour and family migrants but only partially for refugees …
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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden
Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … rather stable in the years after the crisis in 2008. The main explanation is most likely that the recession in Sweden was … were employed. If the present EMU crisis is spreading to Sweden the result may of course be different. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959693
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Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Poverty in Sweden: An Innovative Analysis of Individual Neighbourhood Histories
van Ham, Maarten; Hedman, Lina; Manley, David; Coulter, Rory - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The extent to which socioeconomic (dis)advantage is transmitted between generations is receiving increasing attention from academics and policymakers. However, few studies have investigated whether there is a spatial dimension to this intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantage. Drawing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279261
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Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Children in Sweden’s Three Metropolitan Areas
Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Bjorn; Österberg, Torun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233803