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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5820 Olivier B. Bargain
Kristian Orsini
Andreas Peichl
Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US
Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable across countries. In this paper, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison of elasticities, ...
(revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 6735; published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49(3), 723-838)
C25, C52, H31, J22
5819 Paul Frijters
David W. Johnston
Michael A. Shields
Destined for (Un)Happiness: Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction?
In this paper we address the question of how much of adult life satisfaction is predicted by childhood traits, parental characteristics and family socioeconomic status. Given the current focus of ...
(published as 'Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction? Evidence from British Cohort Surveys' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F688-F719)
I1, J1
5818 Stephen V. Burks
Erin L. Krupka
A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy: Evidence from the Financial Services Industry
This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combines multiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and their behavioral ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2012, 1 (58), 203-217)
C93, D23, M14
5815 Daniel Fernández-Kranz
Marie Elina Paul
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Part-Time Work, Fixed-Term Contracts, and the Returns to Experience
Using data from Spanish Social Security records, we investigate the returns to experience in different flexible work arrangements, including part-time and full-time work, and permanent and fixed-term ...
(substantially revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77 (4), 512 - 541 )
J16, J24, J31, J41, C11, C33
5814 Johan Almenberg
Christer Gerdes
Exponential Growth Bias and Financial Literacy
The tendency to underestimate the future value of a variable growing at a constant rate, an example of exponential growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making. We show that ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19 (17), 1693-1696)
D12, D14
5813 William T. Harbaugh
Naci Mocan
Michael S. Visser
Theft and Deterrence
We report results from economic experiments of decisions that are best described as petty larceny, with high school and college students who can anonymously steal real money from each other. Our ...
(published in Journal of Labor Research, 2013, 34(4), 389-407)
K4
5809 Melanie K. Jones
Paul L. Latreille
Peter J. Sloane
Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance
This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2016, 54 (4), 742 - 767)
I0, J28, J81, J20
5808 Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Lorenz Götte
Aldo Rustichini
Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Economists and psychologists have devised numerous instruments to measure time preferences and have generated a rich literature examining the extent to which time preferences predict important ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (1), 308-320)
C93, D90
5807 Daniel Borowczyk-Martins
Grégory Jolivet
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Accounting For Endogenous Search Behavior in Matching Function Estimation
We show that equilibrium matching models imply that standard estimates of the matching function elasticities are exposed to an endogeneity bias, which arises from the search behavior of agents on ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2013, 16, 440–451)
J63, J64
5805 Corrado Giulietti
Guangjie Ning
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Self-Employment of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (1), 96-117.)
J23, J61, O15
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