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The Random part in network evolution
Grebel, Thomas - 2009
Economic behavior strives for efficiency. Therefore, also evolving network structures should be a result of such a goal-oriented behavior. Traditionally, networks were assumed to be only temporary phenomena, since the prevailing organizational forms that comply with the efficiency postulate are...
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Self-employment and well-being across institutional contexts
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018
countries with varying institutional contexts. We find that the relationship between job- and life satisfaction of self …
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Entrepreneurship and job satisfaction: The role of age
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018
This paper investigates the relationship between job satisfaction and age for self-employed persons as compared to paid … employees. While, on average, there are higher levels of job satisfaction in self-employment as compared to paid employment, we …-employed to experience high levels of job satisfaction is quite similar across all age cohorts, but the job satisfaction of paid …
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Types of institutions and well-being of self-employed and paid employees in Europe
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019
-employed and paid employed individuals. Well-being is operationalized by job and life satisfaction of individuals in 32 European …
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Are senior entrepreneurs happier than who? The role of income and health
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2023
We propose an extension of the standard occupational choice model to analyze the life satisfaction of senior … as main factors that shape the relationship between occupational status and life satisfaction. Senior entrepreneurs enjoy … higher levels of life satisfaction than retirees and senior paid employees. This higher life satisfaction is mainly due to …
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The deep imprint of Roman sandals: Evidence of long-lasting effects of Roman rule on personality , economic performance, and well-being in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Wahl, Fabian; … - 2020
certain personality traits, have higher life and health satisfaction, longer life expectancy, generate more inventions and …
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The impossibility of social choice and the possibilities of individual values: political and philosophical liberalism reconsidered
Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut - 2008
Though the social choice of social institutions or social results is impossible there is, strictly speaking, no social choice individual evaluations of social institutions or results trivially are possible. Such individual evaluations can be deemed liberal either because they emphasize political...
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Faulty nash implementation in exchange economies with single-peaked preferences
Doghmi, Ahmed; Ziad, Abderrahmane - 2009
results to exchange economies with single -peaked preferences, to finite allocation problems, and to equilibrium theory …
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House allocation with overlapping agents: A dynamic mechanism design approach
Kurino, Morimitsu - 2009
Many real-life applications of house allocation problems are dynamic. For example, in the case of on-campus housing for college students, each year freshmen apply to move in and graduating seniors leave. Each student stays on campus for a few years only. A student is a newcomer in the beginning...
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Procedurally fair provision of public projects: An axiomatic characterization
Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut - 2011
Unanimous voting as the fundamental procedural source of political legitimacy grants veto power to each individual. We present an axiomatic characterization of a class of bidding processes to spell out the underlying egalitarian values for collective projects of a productive state. At heart of...
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