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We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm. We provide evidence that large shocks to external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219645
We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm. We provide evidence that large shocks to external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325333
preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender … different abilities, preferences, self-assessments, gender and personalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780523
costs and thereby regional mobility and unemployment. The paper analyzes the impact of symmetric and asymmetric shocks on … mobility and unemployment, and discusses effects of government intervention in the housing market. In addition, it is shown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262416
costs and thereby regional mobility and unemployment. The paper analyzes the impact of symmetric and asymmetric shocks on … mobility and unemployment, and discusses effects of government intervention in the housing market. In addition, it is shown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761940
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107552
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality – such as the Big Five and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107699
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088726
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773734
We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078371