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German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...
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Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central...
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Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about whether such beliefs causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central choices made by workers...
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Job-Market signaling is ranked high among the explanations why individuals engage voluntarily in OSS projects. If true …, signaling implies the existence of a wage premium for OSS engagement. However, due to a lack of data this issue has not been … employees, this paper fills this gap. In the empirical analysis, however, we find no support for the signaling hypothesis, a …
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signaling value of education accompanied by more overeducation particularly among upperclass offspring. We identify five …
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Although the standard work week is longer in East than in West Germany, there is a higher incidence and average amount of unpaid overtime worked in the new states. We try to explain the striking differences in unpaid overtime by analyzing the labor supply side. We focus on the investment...
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We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average...
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We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271418
Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307 … in 1990-1999 envy has been the dominant concern in West Germany and signaling the dominant factor in East Germany, income …
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