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Explaining Trumpism as a structural US problem: new insights and transatlantic plus global economic perspectives
Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011922096
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Negative returns : U.S. military policy and anti-american terrorism
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2017
We investigate the effect of U.S. military aid and U.S. troop deployments on anti-American terrorism, using a sample of 106 countries between 1986 and 2011. We find that greater military commitment leads to more anti-American terrorism. We study the underlying mechanisms using a mediation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756796
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Testing for the ratchet effect : evidence from a real-effort work task
Cardella, Eric; Depew, Briggs - 2016
The "ratchet effect" refers to a phenomenon where workers whose compensation is based on productivity strategically restrict their output, relative to their capability, because they rationally anticipate that high levels of output will be met with increased or "ratcheted-up" expectations in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484559
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Separating the hawks from the doves : evidence from continuous time laboratory games
Oprea, Ryan; Henwood, Keith; Friedman, Daniel - 2010
Human players in our laboratory experiment received flow payoffs over 120 seconds each period from a standard Hawk-Dove bimatrix game played in continuous time. Play converged closely to the symmetric mixed Nash equilibrium under a one-population matching protocol. When the same players were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009658435
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How does household production affect measured income inequality?
Frazis, Harley; Stewart, Jay - 2009
Although income inequality has been studied extensively, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of … sensitivity analysis indicates that virtually all of the decline in measured inequality when moving from money income to extended … measured inequality is insensitive to the correlation between money and household production income. The practical importance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271222
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Causes of changing earnings inequality
Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272949
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Inequality of earnings
Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
This Paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332733
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Social interactions in the labor market
Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Bishop, John A. - 2011
We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280680
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Measuring segregation when hierarchy matters
Hutchens, Robert M. - 2012
This paper considers the problem of measuring segregation when groups form a hierarchy whereby some groups have greater economic status than others. While existing measures of segregation address the case where people are unequally distributed across groups with the same economic status, concern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283970
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Multidimensional affluence: Theory and applications to Germany and the US
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286273