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It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...
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modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The perspective sheds new light on several … topics in the theory of the firm, like the boundaries of the firm, the importance of fairness concerns within firms, the … attenuation of incentives, or the role of routines and incentives. It implies a perceptional theory of the firm that is realistic …
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institutional uncertainty (and of its elimination) on job creation and job destruction in the CEEC candidate countries. We conclude … that structural change on CEEC labor markets tends to be fostered via reducing institutional uncertainty. However, these … value analysis, we investigate and evaluate the trade-off between lower institutional uncertainty and higher employment …
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in a model with non-durable and durable consumption. The stock of the durable is exposed to risk against which households … because agents can time-diversify their risk. Market insurance implies welfare gains of around .6% in terms of non …-durable consumption. Introducing labor income risk into the model does not necessarily increase the importance of market insurance if the …
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This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different … willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been validated in previous work. As a measure of earnings risk, we use … relating earnings risk to the measure of individual risk preference, our evidence shows that individuals with low willingness …
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Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups - such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes - are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...
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Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes – are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...
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). These shocks make the investment in developing an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) subject to considerable uncertainty …
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predicted by the prospect theory. But under high stakes, we provide some evidence that risk seeking behavior is dramatically …Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental … paper reports instead between-subject results on the effect of monetary stakes on risk attitudes for small probability …
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predicted by the prospect theory. But under high stakes, we provide some evidence that risk seeking behavior is dramatically …Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental … paper reports instead between-subject results on the effect of monetary stakes on risk attitudes for small probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527318