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Mindfulness, preferences and well-being : mindfulness predicts adolescents' field behaviour

Lima de Miranda, Katharina - 2019

of economic preferences and personality traits such as mindfulness may improve the analysis of potential sources of … economic preferences, and consequently well-being, of adolescents. Comprehensive data of 525 German secondary school students … preferences. However, both mindfulness and preferences have explanatory power for adolescents’ field behaviour and thus contribute …

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

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A tale of two countries: a comparison of the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Germany

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011

This paper compares the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Western Germany using a stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth. Reallocative shocks have no effect on the natural rate of unemployment in either country, and there is mild evidence that...

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The aggregate effects of long run sectoral reallocation

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011

In this paper, I estimate a series of long run reallocative shocks to sectoral employment using a stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth for the United States from 1960 through 2011. Reallocative shocks (which primarily measure construction and technology busts) have little...

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Skill-biased technological change and the business cycle

Balleer, Almut; Rens, Thijs van - 2012

Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We construct a quarterly skill premium from the CPS and use it to identify skill-biased technology shocks in a VAR with long-run restrictions....

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