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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12348 Loukas Balafoutas
Matthias Sutter
How Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Tournaments Affect Gender Differences in Competitive Behavior
Tournament incentives prevail in labor markets. Yet, the number of tournament winners is often unclear to competitors. While it is hard to measure how this uncertainty affects work performance and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 118, 1-13.)
C91, D03, D09
12347 Gary Charness
Francesco Feri
Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez
Matthias Sutter
An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games
The effectiveness of social interaction depends strongly on an ability to coordinate actions efficiently. In large networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (6), 1630 - 1543)
C71, C91, D03, D85
12346 Giorgio Brunello
Patricia Wruuck
Skill Shortages and Skill Mismatch in Europe: A Review of the Literature
Labour markets are currently in a phase of cyclical recovery and undergoing structural transformation due to globalisation, demographic trends, advancing digital technologies and automation and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2021, 35 (4), 1145-1167)
J24
12345 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Xiuna Yang
Terry Sicular
Catching up with the West: Chinese Pathways to the Global Middle Class
We investigate whether Chinese household incomes have caught up to those of the middle class in the developed world. Using nationwide survey data for 2002 and 2013, we find considerable catch up. ...
(published in: China Journal, 2020, 84, 102-127)
D31, P36
12344 Uwe Jirjahn
Jens Mohrenweiser
Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany
While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in labor market opportunities. This gives rise to the question of what factors lead ...
(revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (4), 1020-1048)
J13, J16, J52, J53
12342 Paul Marx
Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States
Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry ...
(published in: British Journal of Sociology, 2020, 71 (4), 608-624.)
D72, D74, P16
12341 Petri Böckerman
Andrew Conlin
Rauli Svento
Early Health, Risk Aversion and Stock Market Participation
To examine the relationship between early health status and financial decisions in adulthood, we link information on birth weight in 1966 from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort to data from the ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2021, 32, 100568)
I100, G110
12340 Sergi Jimenez-Martin
Catia Nicodemo
Stuart Redding
Modelling the Dynamic Effects of Elective Hospital Admissions on Emergency Levels in England
In England as elsewhere, policy makers are trying to reduce the pressure on costs due to rising hospital admissions by encouraging GPs to refer fewer patients to hospital specialists. This could have ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 1933-1957)
I10, I14, C10, B12
12339 Piotr Lewandowski
Albert Park
Wojciech Hardy
Yang Du
Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data
The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various ...
(published in: The World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36(3), 687-708)
J21, J23, J24
12338 Giorgio Brunello
David Kiss
Math Scores in High Stakes Grades
We investigate whether tests taken during a high stakes grade by German primary and secondary students produce higher math scores than in lower stakes grades. We identify a high stakes grade with the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 82, 102219)
I26, J24, D91
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