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Tastes for discrimination monopsonistic in labour markets
Fanfani, Bernardo - 2020
This paper presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and … imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the presence of taste-based discrimination and of other firm-level mechanisms … significant determinant of the gender wage gap. Taste-based discrimination mechanisms appear to be significant as well, but small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012310637
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Biased survival expectations and behaviours: does domain specific information matter?
Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2021
We study biased survival expectations across two domains and examine whether such biased expectations influence health and financial behaviors. Combining individual-level longitudinal data, retrospective, and end of life data from several European countries for more than a decade, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703131
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Biased survival expectations and behaviours : does domain specific information matter?
Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2021 - This version: January 2022
We study biased survival expectations across two domains and examine whether such biased expectations influence health and financial behaviors. Combining individual-level longitudinal data, retrospective, and end of life data from several European countries for more than a decade, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669614
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Labor income risk and the reluctance of households to invest in risky financial assets : a panel data analysis
Becker, Gideon; Dimpfl, Thomas - 2014
theory suggests that with increasing labor income risk, the reluctance of households to hold stocks increases. We propose to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350417
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Income risk, precautionary saving, and loss aversion : an empirical test
Ibanez, Marcela; Schneider, Sebastian O. - 2021
This paper empirically examines the behavioral precautionary saving hypothesis by Koszegi and Rabin (2009) stating that uncertainty about future income triggers saving because of loss aversion. We extend their theoretical analysis to also consider the internal margin, i.e., the strength, of loss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012438025
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Income risk, precautionary saving, and loss aversion : an empirical test
Ibanez, Marcela; Schneider, Sebastian O. - 2023
This paper empirically examines the behavioral precautionary saving hypothesis that uncertainty about future income triggers an increase in saving because of loss aversion. Guided by the theoretical model of Koszegi and Rabin (2009), we first extend their theoretical analysis to also consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014312199
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Unobserved heterogeneity and labor market discrimination
Sarzosa, Miguel - 2018
Sexual minorities have historically been subject to many kinds of discrimination. Prejudicial treatment in the labor … with the existence of discrimination, homosexuals are 10-20 percentage points less likely to be employed than heterosexuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943479
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Social networks and housing markets
Bailey, Michael; Cao, Ruiqing; Kuchler, Theresa; … - 2016
The recent house price experiences within an individual's social network affect her perceptions of the attractiveness of property investments, and through this channel have large effects on her housing market activity. Our data combine anonymized social network information from Facebook with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476018
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Racial and economic factors in attitudes to immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2000
Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336853
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Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending
Dobbie, Will - 2019
Kingdom. We motivate our analysis using a simple model of discrimination in lending, which predicts that profits should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897960