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Justification and cooperation
Xiao, Erte - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The need for justification is a widely observed social phenomenon. This paper develops a theoretical framework and reports laboratory evidence to show how pure justification pressure affects cooperative behavior in economic exchange environments. In a one-shot anonymous interaction, compared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422008
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Government Spending on Education and Closing the Gender Gap : The Case of Developing Economies
Emara, Noha; Hegazy, Azza - 2021
Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233487
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Sustainable Heterogeneity as the Unique Socially Optimal Allocation for Almost All Social Welfare Functions
Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The socially optimal allocation has been regarded to be unspecifiable because of utility’s interpersonal incomparability, Arrow’s general possibility theorem, and other factors. This paper examines this problem by focusing not on the social welfare function but instead on the utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259529
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What policies should be there for employment in urban areas of developing countries?
Gugushvili, Alexi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper examines employment policies in urban areas of developing world. We follow traditional economic analysis and present the urban unemployment problem as an inequality of labour supply and demand on labour markets. The effects of demand-side and supply-side policies on informal urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616898
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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Bekämpfung oder Ursache von Arbeitslosigkeit
Breiding, Torsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Abstract German (English abstract is added below) Arbeitslosigkeit gilt als eines der schwerwiegendsten gesellschaftlichen Probleme unserer Zeit. Doch welche Gründe liegen, trotz der über die Jahre eingeleiteten Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit, für die anhaltende...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622251
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Right-to-Work Laws and Geographic Differences in Living Costs: An Analysis of Effects of the "Union Shop" Ban for the Years 1974, 1976, and 1978
Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1982
The existence in a geographic area of right-to-work laws prohib­iting the union shop tends to generate a labor-market environment with less union power and thus less labor-market pressure to elevate labor costs. To the extent that right-to-work legislation leads to lower labor costs and hence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111582
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Knowledge cluster formation as a science policy: lessons learned
Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Regional science policy aims at the creation of productive knowledge clusters, which are central places within an epistemic landscape of knowledge production and dissemination, K-clusters are said to have the organisational capability to drive innovations and create new industries. The following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009328152
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Testing for Differences across Genders: A Replication of Ultimatum Game at International Islamic University, Islamabad
HASAN, HAMID; EJAZ, NAUMAN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
experiment in a “same gender pairings” setting in International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan. In order to test the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259998
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Choices About Competition: Differences by gender and hormonal fluctuations, and the role of relative performance feedback.
Wozniak, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
compensation, women are more reluctant than men to choose tournaments. These gender difference experiments have all relied on a … such as piece-rate and group pay, and removes the gender difference in compensation choices. I then examine between and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592978
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Gender bias in trustworthiness
Bonein, Aurélie; Serra, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Gender differences are often observed in real life-situations. We implement an experiment on the investment game which … explores the influence of knowledge of partner's gender in trust and reciprocity by means of two treatments of information: the … first one, without knowledge of partner's gender and the second treatment where gender's partner is common knowledge. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787126