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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5043 Patrick Emmenegger
Paul Marx
Employer Preferences and Social Policy: Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany since World War I
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German ...
(revised version published as 'Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations: The Case of Germany' in: Socio-Economic Review, 2011, 9 (4), 729-756)
K31, N34, N44
5042 Douglas Gollin
Christian Zimmermann
Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease: An Economic Approach
We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., ...
(published in: Mathematical Population Studies, 2012, 19 (1), 51-62)
I1, O11, E13, E21, Q54
5041 Guglielmo Maria Caporale
Christophe Rault
Robert Sova
Anamaria Sova
Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure in Romania: A Multilevel Analysis
The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at ...
(published as 'Improving Environmental Performance: A Challenge for Romania' in: Environmental and Resource Economics, 2014, 57 (3), 431-452)
Q52, C29, C40
5040 Michael Kosfeld
Susanne Neckermann
Getting More Work for Nothing? Symbolic Awards and Worker Performance
We study the impact of status and social recognition on worker performance in a field experiment. In collaboration with an international non-governmental organization we hired students to work on a ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 86-99)
C93, M52
5039 Alessandro Barattieri
Susanto Basu
Peter T. Gottschalk
Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages
Nominal wage stickiness is an important component of recent medium-scale structural macroeconomic models, but to date there has been little microeconomic evidence supporting the assumption of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2014, 6 (1), 70-101)
E24, E32, J30
5038 Arthur van Soest
Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Does Income Taxation Affect Partners' Household Chores?
We study the impact of income taxation on both partners' allocation of time to market work and unpaid house work in households with two adults. We estimate a structural household utility model in ...
(revised version published as 'Income taxation, labour supply and housework: A discrete choice model for French couples' in: Labour Economics, 2014, 27, 30-43)
J22, H31, C35
5037 M. Hashem Pesaran
Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis
This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different ...
(published in: Aman Ullah and David E. Giles (eds.), Handbook of Empirical Economics and Finance, Taylor & Francis. 2010)
G12, G14
5036 Clive Bell
Hans Gersbach
Maik T. Schneider
Raising Juveniles
This paper investigates how families make decisions about the education of juveniles. The decision problem is analyzed in three variations: a 'decentralized' scheme, in which the parents control the ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, 74 (1), 32-51)
D13, J13, J22, J24
5035 Werner Eichhorst
Paul Marx
Whatever Works: Dualisation and the Service Economy in Bismarckian Welfare States
The paper compares employment structures in five Continental welfare states. These countries feature broad similarities in their reliance on a more dualised model of labour market flexibility, ...
(published in: P.Emmenegger et al. (eds.): The Age of Dualization, Oxford: 2012, 73-99)
J38, J41, J21, J58
5034 Gary Charness
David Masclet
Marie Claire Villeval
Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence
In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort ...
(revised version published as 'The dark side of competition for status' in: Management Science, 2014, 60 (1), 38–55)
C91, C92, M54, D63, J28, J31
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