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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9322 Maria Ferreira Sequeda
Andries de Grip
Rolf Van der Velden
Does Informal Learning at Work Differ between Temporary and Permanent Workers? Evidence from 20 OECD Countries
Several studies have shown that employees with temporary contracts have lower training participation than those with permanent contracts. There is, however, no empirical literature on the difference ...
(published in: Labour Economics,, 2018, 55, 18-40)
E24, J24, J41
9320 Sriya Iyer
The New Economics of Religion
The economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics. This survey serves two purposes – it is backward-looking in that it traces the historical and sociological origins of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2016, 54 (2), 395 - 441)
Z12
9319 Simon Chang
Thomas S. Dee
Chun-Wing Tse
Li Yu
Be a Good Samaritan to a Good Samaritan: Field Evidence of Interdependent Other-Regarding Preferences in China
We conducted large-scale lost letter experiments in Beijing, a megacity with more than 21 million residents, to test if the observed altruistic attribute of the letter recipient would induce more ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 41, 23-33)
C93, D03
9317 Christian Pfeifer
Unfair Wage Perceptions and Sleep: Evidence from German Survey Data
The author uses large-scale German survey data for the years 2009, 2011 and 2013 in order to analyze the nexus between the individual perception of being unfairly paid and measures for quantity and ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Social Science, 134(4), 413-428)
I12, J22, J31
9316 Guido Friebel
Matthias Heinz
Miriam Krüger
Nick Zubanov
Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain
We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107(8), 2168-2203)
J3, L2, M5
9315 Maria De Paola
Vincenzo Scoppa
Gender Differences in Reaction to Psychological Pressure: Evidence from Tennis Players
Using data on about 35,000 professional tennis matches, we test whether men and women react differently to psychological pressure arising from the outcomes of sequential stages in a competition. We ...
(published in: European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 2017, 26 (3), 444-456)
J16, D03, L83
9314 Matthias Sutter
Levent Yilmaz
Manuela Oberauer
Delay of Gratification and the Role of Defaults: An Experiment with Kindergarten Children
The ability to delay gratification has been shown to be related to higher education and income and better health status. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2015, 137, 21-24)
C91, D03
9313 Volha Lazuka
Luciana Quaranta
Tommy Bengtsson
Fighting Infectious Disease: Evidence from Sweden 1870-1940
Fighting infectious disease in the past, much like today, focused on isolating the disease and thereby stopping its spread. New insights into the modes of transmission and the causal agents in the ...
(published in: Population and Development Review, 2016, 42 (1), 27-52 )
I14, I18, H51, J18
9312 Xin Zhang
Xiaobo Zhang
Xi Chen
Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Subjective Well-being?
Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on cognition, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via ...
(pubished as 'Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect mental health and subjective well-being?' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2017, 85, 81 - 94 )
I31, Q51, Q53
9311 David W. Johnston
Michael A. Shields
Agne Suziedelyte
Victimisation, Wellbeing and Compensation: Using Panel Data to Estimate the Costs of Violent Crime
The costs of violent crime victimisation are often left to a judge, tribunal or jury to determine; leading to the potential for considerable subjectivity and variation. Using unique panel data, this ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 1545-69.)
I31, K30
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