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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8357 Benjamin R. Lester
Ludo Visschers
Ronald P. Wolthoff
Meeting Technologies and Optimal Trading Mechanisms in Competitive Search Markets
In a market in which sellers compete by posting mechanisms, we study how the properties of the meeting technology affect the mechanism that sellers select. In general, sellers have incentive to use ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 155, 1-15)
C78, D44, D83
8356 Jens Bonke
Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen
Do Preferences Impact Behavior and Wellbeing? A Panel Study of Preferred and Actual Working Time 2001-2008/09
Various European studies show that the majority of those employed wish to work fewer hours than they actually do. The question addressed here is whether imbalanced working hours – working hour ...
(published in: Danish Journal of Economics, 2014, 152 (1), 1-25.)
J22
8355 Didier Fouarge
Ben Kriechel
Thomas Dohmen
Occupational Sorting of School Graduates: The Role of Economic Preferences
We relate risk attitudes and patience of young graduates from high-school, college and university, measured around the time that they start their labor market career in a large representative survey, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 106, 335-351)
J24, J31, D01
8354 Olga Skriabikova
Thomas Dohmen
Ben Kriechel
New Evidence on the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Self-Employment
This paper analyses the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become self-employed among individuals who grew up under the communist regime in Ukraine, which banned self-employment so that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 176-184)
J24, D81, P3
8353 Michael French
Gulcin Gumus
Fast Times During Spring Breaks: Are Traffic Fatalities Another Consequence?
Every year in the United States, millions of college students travel for spring break, spending billions of dollars. We examine a potential adverse consequence of spring break that has received ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (1), 745 - 757)
I12, I18, H73
8351 Örn B. Bodvarsson
Jack W. Hou
Kailing Shen
Aging and Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China
Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration and an aging population. We present a general migration model which captures the ...
(published as 'Aging and Migration: Micro and Macro Evidence from China' in: Frontiers of Economics in China, 2016, 11 (4), 548-580)
J61, J11
8350 Marco Bertoni
Giorgio Brunello
Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan
The "Retired Husband Syndrome", that affects the mental health of wives of retired men around the world, has been anecdotally documented but never formally investigated. We use Japanese micro data ...
(published: Social Science and Medicine, 2017, 175, 135 - 142)
D1, I1, I3, J14, J26
8349 Christophe Jalil Nordman
Laure Pasquier-Doumer
Transitions in a West African Labour Market: The Role of Family Networks
This paper sheds light on the role of family networks in the dynamics of a West African labour market, i.e. in the transitions from unemployment to employment, from wage employment to ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2015, 54, 74-85)
D13, J24, L14
8347 Graziella Bertocchi
Monica Bozzano
Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: ...
(revised version published in: CESifo Economic Studies, Special Issue on the Determinants of Gender Gaps, 2015, 61, 263-300)
E02, H75, I25, J16, N33, O15
8345 Daniele Checchi
Gianni De Fraja
Stefano Verzillo
Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia
We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of ...
(published in Review of Economics and Statistics 2021, 103 (4), 786-802)
D44, I23, I21, M51
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