"The Vocational and Career Psychology Service (BPS) of the German National Employment Agency has developed four new services for competence assessment. They can be used by job placement officers and case workers to better identify soft skills of their customers and use the results for job search...

"Längerfristige Beschäftigungsbeziehungen und betriebsinterne Teilarbeitsmärkte erfahren in diesem Beitrag zunächst eine vertragtheoretische Deutung: Explizite Arbeitsverträge werden ex ante in allgemeiner Form abgeschlossen, bevor ex post individuelle Arbeitsbeziehungen gestaltet werden....

"Längerfristige Beschäftigungsbeziehungen und betriebsinterne Teilarbeitsmärkte erfahren in diesem Beitrag zunächst eine vertragtheoretische Deutung: Explizite Arbeitsverträge werden ex ante in allgemeiner Form abgeschlossen, bevor ex post individuelle Arbeitsbeziehungen gestaltet werden....

Experimental studies have shown that sanctions effectively deter free riding within groups. However, the over-use of costly punishment may actually harm overall welfare. A main reason for over-punishment is that free-riders generate negative emotions that likely favor excessive punishments. In...

In this experimental study we analyse three collective and one individual punishment rule in a public good setting. We show that under all punishment rules cooperation is stronger and more sustainable than reported from settings without punishment. Moreover, we present evidence and explanations...

In some important multi-player situations, such as efforts to supply a global public good, players can choose the game they want to play. In this paper we conduct an experimental test of the decision to choose between a “tipping” game, in which every player wants to contribute to the public...

We use behavioral and experimental economics to study a particular aspect of the economics of climate change: the potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be viewed as a public good, adaptation to climate change...

We analyze cooperative behavior of participants who faced a loss. In particular, we extend the Public Good Game by a fixed loss in the beginning of every period. We show that humans change their behavior compared to corresponding studies with gains only. First, in contrast to literature on...