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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6350 Guido Friebel
Sergei Guriev
Human Smuggling
Despite its importance in global illegal migration, there is little, and mostly theoretical research on human smuggling. We suggest an analytical framework to understand the micro structure of the ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, pp. 121-133)
J15, J61
6349 Daniel Fackler
Claus Schnabel
Joachim Wagner
Establishment Exits in Germany: The Role of Size and Age
Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that between 1975 and 2006 the average exit rate has risen considerably. In order to ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 41 (3), 683-700)
L2
6348 Annalisa Cristini
Federica Origo
Sara Pinoli
The Healthy Fright of Losing a Good One for a Bad One
In this paper we study the effect of different degrees of employment protection on absenteeism, paying attention to differences between workers moving from protected jobs to insecure jobs, on the one ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 59, 129-144)
J22, J41
6346 Christopher K. Hsee
Yuval Rottenstreich
Alois Stutzer
Suboptimal Choices and the Need for Experienced Individual Well-Being in Economic Analysis
Standard economic analysis assumes that people make choices that maximize their utility. Yet both popular discourse and other fields assume that people sometimes fail to make optimal choices and thus ...
(published in: International Journal of Happiness and Development, 2012, 1 (1), 63-85)
D01, D11, D60, D91
6345 Simon Gächter
Daniele Nosenzo
Martin Sefton
Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences?
We compare social preference and social norm based explanations for peer effects in a three-person gift-exchange game experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (3), 548-573)
A13, C92, D03
6344 Marc Blatter
Samuel Mühlemann
Samuel Schenker
Stefan C. Wolter
Hiring Costs of Skilled Workers and the Supply of Firm-Provided Training
This paper analyzes how the costs of hiring skilled workers from the external labor market affect a firm's supply of training. Using administrative survey data with detailed information on hiring and ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (1), 238-257)
J23, J24, J32
6342 Alpaslan Akay
Peter Martinsson
Positional Concerns through the Life Cycle: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments
This paper uses both subjective well-being and survey experimental data to analyze how people's positional concerns regarding income and goods vary with age. The subjective well-being approach is ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 78, 98-103)
C90, D63
6341 Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza
Merlin M. Hanauer
Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia's Protected Areas on Poverty
Protected areas represent a powerful policy tool for the preservation of ecosystems and their services. The rapid proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2013, 41, 265–285)
C14, I38, Q56
6337 Erich Battistin
Michele De Nadai
Barbara Sianesi
Misreported Schooling, Multiple Measures and Returns to Educational Qualifications
We provide a number of contributions of policy, practical and methodological interest to the study of the returns to educational qualifications in the presence of misreporting. First, we provide the ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 181, 136-150)
C10, I20, J31
6336 Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Balázs Égert
Labour Market Reforms and Outcomes in Estonia
The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered a severe recession in 2008. While the rate declined relatively rapidly in 2011, ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2012, 54 (1), 103 - 120)
J08, J64, E24
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