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Asymmetric information in the labor market, immigrants and contract menu
Kar, Saibal; Saha, Bibhas Chandra - 2011
Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all concerned disciplines, principally owing to its strong implications for well-being of natives. The ageing population in many rich countries and several related and unrelated issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278687
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Asymmetric Information in the Labor Market, Immigrants and Contract Menu
Kar, Saibal; Saha, Bibhas Chandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all concerned disciplines, principally owing to its strong implications for well-being of natives. The ageing population in many rich countries and several related and unrelated issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839295
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Demand for Off-Grid Solar Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Grimm, Michael; Lenz, Luciane; Peters, Jörg; Sievert, … - 2016
Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political priorities of the international community, yet the costs of reaching this objective are very high. The present paper examines whether the objective and the associated costs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653155
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Estimating the social value of higher education: willingness to pay for community and technical colleges
Blomquist, Glenn C.; Coomes, Paul A.; Jepsen, Christopher; … - 2009
Much is known about private returns to education in the form of higher earnings. Less is known about social value, over and above the private, market value. Associations between education and socially-desirable outcomes are strong, but disentangling the effect of education from other causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269055
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The effect of power outages and cheap talk on willingness to pay to reduce outages
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Akay, Alpaslan - 2009
Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269423
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Willingness to Pay for Carbon Mitigation: Field Evidence from the Market for Carbon Offsets
Rodemeier, Matthias - 2023
this question in a large-scale field experiment (N=255,000) with a delivery service, where customers are offered carbon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296683
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The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Akay, Alpaslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002817
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Estimating the Social Value of Higher Education: Willingness to Pay for Community and Technical Colleges
Blomquist, Glenn C.; Coomes, Paul A.; Jepsen, Christopher; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Much is known about private returns to education in the form of higher earnings. Less is known about social value, over and above the private, market value. Associations between education and socially-desirable outcomes are strong, but disentangling the effect of education from other causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761720
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An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis
Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2003
period and individuals are not too risk averse. This paper tests the POUM hypothesis by means of a within subjects experiment … inequality aversion are (partially) controlled for via either the experiment design or the information collected during the … experiment. We find that the POUM hypothesis holds under alternative specifications, even when we control for individual fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261622
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay : An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting
Villeval, Marie-Claire; Eriksson, Tor - 2004
experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261940