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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9385 Christian Grund
Kirsten Thommes
Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation
The intention of "doing good for society" is regarded to be a crucial motivator for employees in the public sector in order for them to perform well. Recent research in the public sector literature ...
(revised version published as 'The Role of Contract Types for Employees' Public Service Motivation' in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2017, 18, 377-398)
M55, J45, H83
9384 Lata Gangadharan
Nikos Nikiforakis
Marie Claire Villeval
Equality Concerns and the Limits of Self-Governance in Heterogeneous Populations
Mechanisms to overcome social dilemmas provide incentives to maximize efficiency. However, often – such as when agents are heterogeneous – there is a trade-off between efficiency and equality. ...
(revised version published as 'Equality concerns and the limits of self-governance in heterogeneous populations' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 143-156)
C92, H41, D74
9383 Matthias Sutter
Silvia Angerer
Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
Philipp Lergetporer
The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices
According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than ...
(published as 'Language group differences in time preferences: Evidence from primary school children in a bilingual city' in: European Economic Review, 2018, 106, 21-34.)
C91, D03, D90
9382 Thomas Buser
Lydia Geijtenbeek
Erik Plug
Do Gays Shy Away from Competition? Do Lesbians Compete Too Much?
It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged ...
(published as 'Sexual Orientation, Competitiveness and Income' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 151, 191 - 198)
C90, J15, J16, J24, J31
9381 Myeong-Su Yun
Eric S. Lin
An Alternative Estimator for Industrial Gender Wage Gaps: A Normalized Regression Approach
Using normalized regression equations, we propose an alternative estimator of industrial gender wage gaps which is identified in the sense that it is invariant to the choice of an unobserved ...
(published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(4), 569-587)
C12, J31, J71
9380 Mohsen Javdani
Andrew McGee
Moving Up or Falling Behind? Gender, Promotions, and Wages in Canada
We estimate gender differences in internal promotion experiences for a representative sample of Canadian workers using linked employer-employee data. We find that women in Canada are 3 percentage ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2019, 58 (2), 189-228.)
J16, J31, J62, J71
9378 Matteo Picchio
Giacomo Valletta
Welfare Evaluation of the 1986 Tax Reform for Married Couples in the United States
This paper evaluates the welfare effects of the 1986 Tax Reform Act (TRA86). In thirty years since its introduction, several studies have analysed the effects of TRA86. However, preference ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25 (3), 757–807)
C25, D63, H22, H31, J22
9377 Marc K. Chan
Kai Liu
Life-Cycle and Intergenerational Effects of Child Care Reforms
We investigate the importance of various mechanisms by which child care policies can affect life-cycle patterns of employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9 (2), 659 - 706)
D91, J13, J22
9376 Jay Stewart
Mary Dorinda Allard
Secondary Childcare in the ATUS: What Does It Measure?
Unlike most of the earlier U.S. time-use surveys, the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) does not collect information on secondary activities. It does, however, include a set of questions asking ...
(published in: C. Kalenkoski and G. Foster (eds.): The Economics of Multitasking, New York, 2015, 145-171)
C83, J13, J22
9375 Jennifer Roberts
Karl Taylor
Intra-Household Commuting Choices and Local Labour Markets
While the job search literature has increasingly recognised the importance of the spatial distribution of employment opportunities, local labour market conditions have been a notable omission from ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (3), 734-757)
D19, J24, R40
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