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Higher wages increase labor costs but also improve the productivity of the labor force in several ways. If firms take this into account and set their wages accordingly, the resulting wages could fail to adjust demand and supply but may induce phenomena like over-education, discrimination,...
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, normalisation and discipline to behaviour change processes. In so doing, it conceives of behaviour change less as a process of …
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threat of capital flight can discipline governments and improve governance and welfare by placing countries in a golden …
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Personnel economics is a rather young academic (sub-)discipline that applies (micro) economic methodology and insights … to personnel issues. Instead of that, an approach without a grounding discipline seems dubious and a self …
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discipline and, thereby, to identify the implications for the professional self-conceptions of planners. Based on a cross …
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This paper argues that while sources of potential discipline over domestic macro economic policies such as pegged …, as opposed to genuinely fixed exchange rates, are typically not an adequate substitute for domestic discipline enhancing … strategies as sources of discipline. Indeed, their effects can sometimes be perverse. For example, high capital mobility under …
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Der "regierbare Mensch" ist keine Naturgegebenheit. Er muss vielmehr durch vielfältige Techniken und Praktiken hergestellt werden. Dieser Aufgabe haben sich die diversen "Menschenregierungskünste" verschrieben. In diesem Beitrag wird mit Bezug auf Michel Foucault auf die Logik der Produktion...
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reflects the rigorous discipline enforced by the pre-2010 academies. …
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This paper uses proprietary data comprising of 4,155 participants who attended financial education seminars conducted by a major U.S. consumer credit counseling agency in 2007. In this study, knowledge gained from attending the seminars is estimated using a multivariate regression model. Results...
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Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding, regardless of the size or structure of groups. However, experiments show that people will punish free riders, even at considerable cost. To examine the implications of agents who...
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