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Within the last decades an increasing number of people practice risky sports in their leisure time. Although there exists a vast number of economic literature on risk-taking behavior, an estimation of the individual willingness to pay (WTP) for the option to exercise risk-taking is missing....
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längerer Beschäftigungspause', die im Jahr 2004 im Auftrag des AMS Vorarlberg von dem Salzburger Institut Solution …
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of Vorarlberg in 2018, taking advantage of available data, such as census information and statistics on components of …. Therefore, to study changes in the religious composition of the population residing in Vorarlberg, it needs to be estimated … (and project into the future) the population of Austria and Vienna in 2016. The reconstruction shows that Vorarlberg …
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The quality of subjective performance evaluation is dependent on the incentive structures faced by evaluators, in particular on how they are monitored and themselves evaluated. Figure skating competitions provide a unique opportunity to study subjective evaluation. This paper develops and tests...
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The present paper aims at examining the role of variety in the ski manufacturing industry and its relevance in firms' price setting strategies. In particular, it intends to investigate and empirically test two hypotheses concerning the relation between variety and prices. The first concerns the...
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The level of violence in the National Hockey League (NHL) reached its highest point in 1987 and has reduced somewhat since then, although to levels much larger than before the first team expansions in 1967. Using publicly available information from several databases 1996-2007, the incentives for...
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Standortvergleiche sind seit Jahren in Mode und Ausdruck der generellen Tendenz einer zunehmend evidenzbasierten Entscheidungsfindung. Der vorliegende Beitrag dokumentiert das Vorgehen und die Ergebnisse des Benchmarking der Hansestadt Stralsund. Hierzu wurde ein Vergleich mit den drei Städten...
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Der touristische Arbeitsmarkt steht vor großen Herausforderungen, wie dem Arbeitskräftemangel oder der hohen Fluktuation der Arbeitskräfte in Folge der ausgeprägten saisonalen Schwankungen des Personalbedarfs. Hinzu kamen die Einschränkungen und Maßnahmen im Zuge der COVID-19 Pandemie....
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