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The effect of managerial bonus plans on corporate derivatives usage
Kim, Young Sang; Nam, Jouahn; Thornton, John H. - In: Journal of multinational financial management 18 (2008) 3, pp. 229-243
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Three essays in dynamic economic analysis
Scholz, Sebastian - 2010
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Use of derivatives by Australian companies
Heaney, Richard A.; Winata, Henry - In: Pacific-Basin finance journal 13 (2005) 4, pp. 411-430
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Ambiguity aversion and optimal derivative-based pension investment with stochastic income and volatility
Zeng, Yan; Li, Danping; Chen, Zheng; Yang, Zhou - In: Journal of economic dynamics & control 88 (2018), pp. 70-103
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Do Workers Work More When Wages Are High?
Fehr, Ernst; Götte, Lorenz - 2004
The canonical model of life-cycle labor supply predicts a positive response of labor supplied to transitory wage changes. We tested this prediction by conducting a randomized field experiment with bicycle messengers. In contrast to previous studies we can observe in which way working hours as...
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Work-Related Training and Wages : An Empirical Analysis for Male Workers in Switzerland
Gerfin, Michael - 2004
Work-related training is considered to be very important for providing the workforce with the necessary skills for maintaining and enhancing the competitiveness of the firms and the economy. On the individual level, the primary effect of training should be an increased productivity of the...
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Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland
Wolter, Stefan C.; Denzler, Stefan - 2003
In order to learn more about the wage elasticity of the teacher supply in Switzerland, this paper estimates wages for teachers and non-teachers. The data used are ten surveys of graduates of all Swiss universities for the period of 1981-1999. The data allows us to estimate the wage elasticity...
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Rates of Return to Education: The View of Students in Switzerland
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zbinden, André - 2001
Wage expectations are important determinants for individual schooling decisions. However, research on individual expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages...
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Do students expect compensation for wage risk?
Schweri, Juerg; Hartog, Joop; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009
We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity which handicapped the use of actual market wage...
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Betrachtungen zum Arbeitsmarkt der Lehrer in der Schweiz
Wolter, Stefan C.; Denzler, Stefan; Weber, Bernhard A. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 72 (2003) 2, pp. 305-319
Der vorliegende Aufsatz untersucht anhand von zwei empirischen Studien den Arbeitsmarkt für Lehrkräfte in der Schweiz …. Aufgrund dieser Analysen kann festgestellt werden, dass Universitätsabsolventen1 auch in der Schweiz eine signifikant positive … Lehrerkräfteangebots in der Schweiz aber kleiner als in anderen Ländern. Aufgrund dieses Befunds und der Beobachtung, dass die Löhne der …
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