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Flexible Jobs Make Parents Happier: Evidence from Australia
Yu, Shuye; Postepska, Agnieszka - 2020
Recent studies have found that self-reported life satisfaction drops during the transition into parenthood which has been mainly attributed to work-family conflict. This study investigates whether different forms of flexible employment can alleviate this drop in parental life satisfaction during...
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Does Broadband Internet Affect Fertility?
Billari, Francesco C.; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2017
The spread of high-speed Internet epitomizes the digital revolution, affecting several aspects of our life. Using German panel data, we test whether the availability of broadband Internet influences fertility choices in a low-fertility setting, which is well-known for the difficulty to combine...
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Where Does Profit Sharing Work Best? A Meta-Analysis on the Role of Unions, Culture, and Values
Doucouliagos, Chris; Laroche, Patrice; Kruse, Douglas L.; … - 2018
highly valued and there are higher levels of individualism. The latter two results suggest profit sharing works best in …
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Individualism, Human Capital Formation, and Labor Market Success
Hartinger, Katharina; Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; … - 2021
There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better … of individualism by exploiting variation between migrants at the origin country, origin language, and person level … adult education activities. In fact, individualism is more important in explaining adult skill formation than any other …
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Dishonesty as a Collective-Risk Social Dilemma
Jiang, Shuguang; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2022
We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's earnings but when the sum of claims in the group reaches a certain threshold, a risk of collective...
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Individualism and Working from Home
Bietenbeck, Jan; Irmert, Natalie; Nilsson, Therese - 2024
This paper investigates the role of individualism in explaining cross-country differences in working from home (WFH … the influence of individualism by comparing immigrants from different cultural backgrounds residing in the same location …. We find that a 10-point increase in country-of-origin individualism, measured on a 0-100 scale, is associated with a 3 …
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Wages, Sorting on Skill, and the Racial Composition of Jobs
Macpherson, David A.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2003
Wages for black and white workers are substantially lower in occupations with a high density of black employees, following standard controls. Such correlations can exist absent discrimination or as a result of discrimination. In wage level equations, the magnitude of the correlation falls...
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Is There a Risk-Return Trade-Off across Occupations? : Evidence from Spain
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop - 2004
We use data from Spain to test for an effect of earnings risk and skewness on individual wages. We carry out separate estimation for men, women, public and private sector employees. In accordance with previous evidence for the US we show the existence of a riskreturn trade-off across occupations...
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Disaggregate Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
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Subject of Degree and the Gender Wage Differential Evidence from the UK and Germany
Machin, Stephen; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002
We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female gender wage differential amongst graduates. Using data from the labour force surveys of the United Kingdom and Germany, we find similar results in these two countries: subject of degree explains about...
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