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Savings and prize-linked savings accounts
Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - 2012
Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially fragile households also have the highest lottery expenditures as a proportion of income. This combination suggests that Prize-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289923
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Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2004
This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...
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Unions and the Labor Market for Managers
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Hallock, Kevin F.; DiNardo, John - 2000
We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262364
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Household finances and the "Big Five" personality traits
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2011
We explore the relationship between household finances and personality traits from an empirical perspective. Specifically, using individual level data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, we analyse the influence of personality traits on financial decision-making at the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282544
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Entrepreneurship: Cause or consequence of financial optimism?
Dawson, Christopher; De Meza, David Emmanuel; Henley, Andrew - 2012
psychological disposition and environmental factors, as theory requires if optimism is to be a causal influence on entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289870
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Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts
Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially fragile households also have the highest lottery expenditures as a proportion of income. This combination suggests that Prize-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959657
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Does State-Mandated Financial Education Reduce High School Graduation Rates?
Urban, Carly - 2022
Concerned about low levels of financial literacy among teens and the importance of their looming financial decisions as emerging adults, state policymakers have expanded high school personal finance graduation requirements. Did these added requirements create an additional barrier for students?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351941
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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and … employees (n = 2288). The results indicate that entrepreneurs perceive themselves as less risk averse than managers and …
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The Origins and Extent of Entrepreneurial Action-Orientedness: An Experimental Study
Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam C. - 2017
experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653226
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Do Women in Highly Qualified Positions Face Higher Work-to-Family Conflicts in Germany Than Men?
Busch-Heizmann, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2017
Changing employment conditions lead to new chances, but also new risks for employees. In the literature, increasing permeability between occupational and private life is discussed as one special outcome of this development that employees must face, especially those in highly qualified positions....
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