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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1643 Florian Englmaier
Achim Wambach
Optimal Incentive Contracts under Inequity Aversion
We analyze the Moral Hazard problem, assuming that agents are inequity averse. Our results differ from conventional contract theory and are more in line with empirical findings than standard results. ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, 69 (2), 312-328)
D23, D63, J31, J33, M12, Z13
1642 Manuela Angelucci
U.S. Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration
This paper investigates the effect of U.S. border enforcement on the net flow of Mexican undocumented migration. It shows how this effect is theoretically ambiguous, given that increases in border ...
(revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 60 (2), 311-357)
F22, J61, K42, O15
1641 Ernst Fehr
Urs Fischbacher
Michael Kosfeld
Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences
This paper discusses recent neuroeconomic evidence related to other-regarding behaviors and the decision to trust in other people's other-regarding behavior. This evidence supports the view that ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2005, 95 (2), 346-351)
A13, C90
1640 Andrea Bassanini
Alison L. Booth
Giorgio Brunello
Maria De Paola
Edwin Leuven
Workplace Training in Europe
This paper reviews the existing evidence on workplace training in Europe in different data sources - the CVTS, OECD data and the European Community Household Panel. We outline the differences in ...
(published in: Brunello, Garibaldi and Wasmer (eds.), Education and Training in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2007, Ch. 8 - 13)
J24
1638 Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Arturo Gonzalez
Todd C. Neumann
Learning but Not Earning? The Value of Job Corps Training for Hispanic Youths
The National Job Corps Study (NJCS) was a four-year longitudinal social experiment that randomized over 15,000 Job Corps eligible applicants into treatment and control groups. Experimental estimators ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48 (3), 651-667)
J15, J31, J41
1637 Fabien Postel-Vinay
Hélène Turon
The Public Pay Gap in Britain: Small Differences That (Don't?) Matter
The existing literature on inequality between private and public sectors focuses on cross-section differences in earnings levels. A more general way of looking at inequality between sectors is to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1460-1503)
J45, J31, J62
1636 Heather Antecol
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military
Our results indicate that two-thirds of active-duty military personnel report experiencing offensive racial behaviors in the previous 12 months, while approximately one in ten report threatening ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (3), 713-738)
J16, J28
1635 Armin Falk
Ernst Fehr
Urs Fischbacher
Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions
This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2005, 7 (6), 2017-2030)
A13, D63, D23, C92, K42
1634 Leslie S. Stratton
Dennis M. O'Toole
James N. Wetzel
A Multinomial Logit Model of College Stopout and Dropout Behavior
Studies of college attrition typically assume that all attrition is permanent. We use data from the 1990/94 Beginning Postsecondary Survey to distinguish between long-term dropout and short-term ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (3), 319-331)
I21
1632 Thomas K. Bauer
Mathias Sinning
The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany
This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to differences between temporary and permanent migrants. Utilizing household level ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011(2), 24, 421-449)
F22, E21, C24
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