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Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate

Epstein, Gil S. - 2002

We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...

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Dealer Pricing of Consumer Credit

Bertola, Giuseppe; Hochguertel, Stefan; Koeniger, Winfried - 2002

incentives for durable-good dealers to price-discriminate by subsidizing their liquidity-constrained customers? installment …

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Does Divorce Law Matter?

Mariotti, Marco; Manzini, Paola; Fella, Giulio - 2002

In this paper we derive an explicit model of negotiations between spouses when utility is (partially) transferable only in case of separation. We show that inefficient separation may occur in equilibrium even under consensual divorce law. This provides theoretical support for the view that...

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Evaluating Immigration Policy: Potentials and Limitations

Fertig, Michael - 2002

Based on the ideas developed in the literature on the evaluation of active labor market policy, this paper provides a framework for the evaluation of key elements of immigration policy. To this end, the fundamental ingredients of evaluating policy interventions are explained and the specific...

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From Severance Pay to Self-Insurance: Effects of Severance Payments Savings Accounts in Colombia

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2002

loss, they also increase costs for employers and distort employment decisions. The impact of severance payments depends … largely on how much of the costs to employers can be shifted to workers. The theoretical analysis in this paper shows that, in … costs to workers in the form of lower wages. Empirical results using the Colombian National Household Surveys indicate that …

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The Effect of Child Care and Part Time Opportunities on Participation and Fertility Decisions in Italy

Del Boca, Daniela - 2002

rigidities tend to simultaneously increase the costs of having children and to discourage the labor market participation of …

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Do Wages Really Compensate for Risk Aversion and Skewness Affection?

Hartog, Joop; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2002

Utility theory suggests that foreseeable risk should increase the compensation for work. This paper expands on this … notion: on basis of utility theory, people should care not only about risk but also about the skewness in the distribution of …

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Transfer Fee Regulations in European Football

Feess, Eberhard; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2002

We analyze the impact of three different transfer fee systems on payoffs, contract lengths, training and effort incentives in European football. The different regimes, being used until 1995 (?Pre-Bosman? or P), currently in use (?Bosman? or B), and recently approved (?Monti? or M) differ with...

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Divide et Impera: Negotiating with a Stakeholder

Manzini, Paola - 2002

In many kinds of bilateral negotiations the resolution of the issues at stake has an impact which extends beyond the remits of the parties directly involved (e.g. labour negotiations in sectors of public interest, where a strike would impact on the public at large). Once this is recognised,...

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Implementation ökonomischer Steuerungsansätze in die Raumplanung

Krumm, Raimund - 2005

Das anhaltend hohe Siedlungsflächenwachstum stellt die Raumplanungsebenen in Deutschland vor die Notwendigkeit, sich stärker am Ziel der Begrenzung des ?Flächenverbrauchs? zu orientieren. In diesem Zusammenhang gibt es nun Überlegungen, das traditionell ordnungsrechtliche Instrumentarium der...

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