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Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects: Causal Chains and Mediation Analysis with Instrumental Variables
Frölich, Markus; Huber, Martin - 2014
effects (i) of education on health, which may be mediated by income, and (ii) of the Job Corps training program, which may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398297
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Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects: Causal Chains and Mediation Analysis with Instrumental Variables
Frölich, Markus; Huber, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
effects (i) of education on health, which may be mediated by income, and (ii) of the Job Corps training program, which may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790509
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Age biased technical and organisational change, training and employment prospects of older workers
Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the … and innovative work practices negatively affects the wage bill share of older workers. In contrast, training older workers … more than average increases their share in the wage bill in the next period. So, training contributes to offset the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278807
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the … and innovative work practices negatively affects the wage bill share of older workers. In contrast, training older workers … more than average increases their share in the wage bill in the next period. So, training contributes to offset the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854771
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Laws and norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals' behaviors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282313
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Laws and Norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646323
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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002
This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262680
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The Marginal Income Effect of Education on Happiness: Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Well-Being in Australia
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Wooden, Mark - 2013
Many economists and educators favour public support for education on the premise that education improves the overall well-being of citizens. However, little is known about the causal pathways through which education shapes people's subjective well-being (SWB). This paper explores the direct and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319557
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The Marginal Income Effect of Education on Happiness: Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Well-Being in Australia
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Wooden, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Many economists and educators favour public support for education on the premise that education improves the overall well-being of citizens. However, little is known about the causal pathways through which education shapes people's subjective well-being (SWB). This paper explores the direct and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266182
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Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis
Conti, Gabriella; Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; … - 2014
This paper develops and applies a Bayesian approach to Exploratory Factor Analysis that improves on ad hoc classical approaches. Our framework relies on dedicated factor models and simultaneously determines the number of factors, the allocation of each measurement to a unique factor, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398312